Genus Culex . 
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Culex tigripes. Grandpre. 
var. con si milis. Newstead (1907). 
Ann. Soc. Trop. Med. and Para. I., No. I., 23 (1907), Newstead. 
9 . Head with creamy-white, narrow-curved scales, in some 
lights with a faint trace of yellow ; upright forked scales black 
with smoky-grey tips ; median hairs golden-yellow. Thoracic 
scales chiefly of a greyish colour, with dark brown ones inter¬ 
mixed. Proboscis blackish-brown with a broad and well defined 
band of pale ochreous scales ; labella pale ochreous-brown. Palpi 
black or brownish-black with a patch of pale bright ochreous 
scales at the articulation of the first long segment; apex with 
dusky white scales. Abdomen dark brownish-black with scattered 
pale brown scales and narrow basal bands ; basal segment with 
two median black apical spots ; sixth and seventh segments with 
two lateral apical pale spots. Legs as in the typical forms. 
Length.—&' 7 mm. 
Habitat. —Tshumbri (July); Kasongo (February, April, May); 
Yambinga (September) ; Miambwe; Leopoldville, in the Congo 
Free State. 
Observations. —Newstead records as follows :—“ The example 
from Leopoldville was bred from a larva procured in a grass 
swamp near the terminus of the railway. It is important to note 
that three females and four males of the more typical forms were 
bred from larva obtained at the same time.” 
Culex tigripes, Grandpre. 
var. bimacidata. nov. var. 
Legs with marked lines of creamy spots as in type. Thorax 
with two pronounced median small pale spots, a pale scaled line 
from each running backwards, also a pale scaled median spot 
near the head, an indistinct one on each side and some pale scales 
over the wings. Abdomen with the second to fifth segments 
dark with narrow yellow apical bands, the second to fourth each 
with two nearly median yellow spots ; remaining apical area 
golden-yellow. 
Habitat. —Meshra el Firaffe (H. King). 
Observations. —Described from a single perfect 9 bred by 
Mr. King. It forms a very marked and pretty variety, easily 
told by the spots on the abdomen. 
