Genus Culex. 
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Abdomen black, unbanded, with pale dull border-bristles and 
with small pale lateral basal spots. 
Legs deep brown, paler beneath the femora, and a pale spot 
at their apex ; chaetae black ; ungues all equal and simple. 
Wings with the first fork-cell longer and narrower than the 
Fig. 170. 
Wing of Culex ornatothoracis . ?. n. sp. 
second, its base nearer the base of the wing, its stem about one- 
third the length of the cell; stem of the second fork-cell 
about one-half the length of the cell; posterior cross-vein longer 
than the mid, more than its own length distant from it, and 
sloping towards the base of the wing. 
Length. —4’5 mm. 
£. Palpi black, longer than the proboscis, the last two seg¬ 
ments nearly equal, with long black hairs on each side and a few 
on the apex of the ante-penultimate. Antennae deep brown with 
dark plume hairs and pale bands, apical segments densely hairy. 
