Genus Culeoc. 
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Legs ochreous brown with dark bristles, simple ungues. 
Wings with ochreous veins and scales ; first fork-cell longer 
and narrower than the second fork-cell, its base a little nearer 
the base of the wing than that of the latter, its stem a little 
more than half the length of the cell; stem of the second 
posterior about two-thirds the length of the cell; posterior cross¬ 
vein about twice its own length distant from the mid. 
Length. —2*5 mm. 
Habitat. —Peradeniya, Ceylon (Green). 
Time of capture. —x. 1900. 
Observations ,—Described from a single perfect 9 • A very 
small typical Gulex showing a general ochreous to dull yellow 
sheen in certain lights. 
I know of nothing like it from Ceylon or elsewhere. 
Type in the British Museum. 
Culex parascelos. Theobald (1910). 
Rec. Ind. Mus. 18, IV., 1910. 
Thorax golden-brown and brown, with three paler median 
parallel lines, the areas between them darker than the sides; 
head, palpi and proboscis bright ochreous, apex of the latter 
black. Abdomen entirely clothed with ochreous scales. Legs 
ochreous brown above, pale ochreous below, with dark and 
ochreous linear ornamentation. Wings with ochreous and 
brown scales on the veins near costa ; fork-cells short; ungues 
large, all uniserrate. 
9. Head brown with small narrow-curved pale golden 
scales, ochreous upright forked scales, somewhat darker behind ; 
ochreous chaetae; clypeus and palpi bright ochreous, almost 
golden-yellow, the latter with prominent black chaetae; proboscis 
the same colour, dark at the apex, with black chaetae. Antennae 
brown, ochreous at base. 
Thorax deep brown, clothed with scanty small narrow-curved 
pale golden and rich golden-brown scales, the former making 
two prominent lateral median lines and an indistinct median 
one ; chaetae bright golden-brown ; scutellum brown with 
narrow-curved pale golden scales and golden-brown chaetae; 
metanotum brown; pleurae brown with patches of flat ochraceous 
scales. 
Abdomen dark, densely clothed ydth bright ochreous yellow 
scales and pale border-bristles ; venter pale ochreous. 
