Gemis Armigeres . 
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1. Armigeres obturbans. Walker (1860). 
= Culex obturbans. Walker. 
Culex ventralis . Walker. 
(Proc. Linn. Soc. Lond. iv. p. 91 (1860), et v. p. 144 (= ventralis ).) 
(Fig. 57, Pi. XY.) 
Thorax black, covered with bronzy scales in the middle of the 
mesothorax and with creamy-white ones all round forming a 
broad pale band. Abdomen black with large white triangular 
lateral spots, last segment white. Legs black, bases and venter 
of the femora pale, almost white. 
9 . Head covered with flat scales, those around and between 
the eyes creamy white, those on the crown dusky, those at the 
sides creamy white, dark-brown bristles projecting in front; 
palpi deep black with a purplish tinge ; proboscis deep black ; 
antennae brown with narrow pale bands at the verticils, basal 
joint black with grey tomentum on the outside and a dense tuft 
of white scales on* the inside, base of the second joint testaceous ; 
clypeus dark brown. 
Thorax black, covered on the dorsum of the mesonotum with 
curved, bronzy brown scales and narrow curved, creamy to 
pure white ones at the sides, and pale brown in front of the 
scutellum, where they become very much longer and lanceolate ; 
scutellum clothed with flat scales, dull creamy white on the 
lateral lobes, dusky with violet reflections in the middle; six 
large brown bristles arising from the middle lobe on the pos* 
terior border and some smaller ones between, others from the 
lateral lobes; metanotum cliestnut-brown ; pleurae light brown, 
with numerous patches of pure white scales extending to the 
coxae. 
Abdomen covered with dusky black scales with violet reflec¬ 
tions, with six lateral, triangular white patches which extend 
to the middle of the segments; venter with broad, basal white 
bands and narrow black apical ones, apical segments white 
scaled with short pale hairs to the posterior borders. 
Legs black, with violet reflections in some lights, coxae 
brown, femora white beneath; hind metatarsi a little shorter 
than the tibiae ; knee spot small, creamy white. 
Ungues of the fore legs equal, each with a single sharp tooth, 
those of the mid also toothed, and the hind equal and simple. 
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