Genus Mucidus. 
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generic characters are the position of the posterior cross-vein, the 
form of the wing scales, and the curious bent scales on the head 
and thorax. These large mosquitoes bite rather viciously. 
TABLE OF SPECIES. 
A. Proboscis with ochraceous and yellow scales— 
no white apical band. 
a. Wing fringe with 8 pale yellow spots. 
13. Stem of second posterior cell 
shorter than the cell . alternans. Westwood. 
(3/3. Stem of the second posterior 
cell longer than the cell. scatapliagoides. n, sp. 
a. Wing fringe with 7 pale spots . mucidus. Karscli. 
aa. Wing fringe with 5 pale spots . Africanus. n. sp. 
A A. Proboscis white banded at apex . laniger. Wiedemann. 
1. Mucidus alternans. Westwood (1835). 
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Oulex alternans. Westwood (1835). 
Oulex commovens. Walker (1848). 
Culex hispidosus. Skuse (1889). 
(Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. iv. p. 681, and 'Frans. Ent. Soc. Loml. iii. p. 384, West- 
wood (= alternans ); Ins. Saund. Dipt. p. 432, Walker (= C. commovens); 
Trans. Linn. Soc. N. S. Wales, p. 1726 (1801), Skuse (= C. hispidosus).) 
(Fig. 41, PI. XL) 
Of a general mouldy appearance. Thorax yellowish-brown, 
with white spots as follows: three in front near the head, 
three in the middle, irregular patches at the sides, and one in 
front of the scutellum. Abdomen blackish, covered with 
ochraceous, yellow, white, parti-coloured scales, the white 
forming more or less basal bands, and a spot on the middle of 
the segments. Legs densely clothed with ochraceous, parti¬ 
coloured and white scales, banded with white. Wings with the 
veins densely covered with parti-coloured yellowish-white scales, 
fringe alternately dark and white. 
9 • Head brown, with a patch of white scales in the middle 
and on each side, a pure white edge to the eyes, ochraceous 
scales between the white patches, and two tufts of yellow hairs 
projecting forwards ; eyes black, purple in some lights ; antennae 
ochraceous, bases of the joints dark, basal joint bright ferruginous, 
