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vein; sub-costal dark except where it joins the costa; first long 
vein yellow at its basal half, then dark, then yellow again under 
the two costal spots ; second long vein dark, with yellow lateral 
scales before and at the fork, and at the apices of the branches, 
especially the outer branch under the apical costal spot; third 
with a pale median spot; fourth with some yellow lateral scales 
before the fork; the basal area and up to just past the fork of 
the fifth yellow ; first fork-cell longer and a little narrower than 
the second, its base slightly nearer the base of the wing, its stem 
about one-third the length of the cell; stem of the second 
posterior cell more than half the length of the cell; posterior- 
cross-vein about twice its own length distant from the mid. 
Length. —4*5 mm. 
Habitat. —Obuasi, Ashanti (Dr. Graham). 
Time of capture. —7. viii. 07. 
Observations. —Described from one 9 caught in the bush. 
This is a very beautiful insect, which differs in ornamentation so 
much from the typical Banksinella luteolateralis that I have 
separated it as a distinct species. The markedly adorned wings 
are very pronounced, and give it an almostAnopheline appearance. 
Type in the British Museum. 
B anksinella metallicus. Theobald (1901). 
Culex metallicus. Theobald (1901). 
Mono. Culicid. II., 63 (1901). 
Bonny, West Africa; Nisomba, Busago; Wadelai (Christy). 
Type in the British Museum. 
Genus MIMETECULEX. Theobald (1908). 
Third Rep. Well. Res. Labs. Gord. Coll., 258 (1908), Theobald. 
Closely related to Culex and Banksinella, but differs from the 
former in the longer palpi of the female, and by having scales on 
the basal and second antennal segments, and from both in the 
male by having the palpi rather enlarged apically and with dense 
hair tufts, and composed of three segments, there only being two 
in Banhsinella , and also by the male hind ungues being unequal. 
Head clothed with narrow-curved and upright forked scales 
and flat lateral ones, broader in $ than 9 ; palpi moderately 
