Genus Culex. 
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Thorax ornamented. 
Thorax with lines of white scales; wing 
spots three; legs spotted.. spathipalpis. Rondani. 
Wings with four spots; fork-cells very 
long. longiareolatus. Mac- 
quart. 
aa. Abdomen with basal pale bands ; tarsi 
unbanded. 
Wing spots four or five ... glaphyropterus. Schiner, 
aaa. Abdomen with apical pale bands. 
Wings with five spots ; palpi of 6 filiform, 
not spatulate as in annulcitus . penetrans. R. Desvoidy. 
W ings with three long yellow and three 
long black costal spots; large species, 
with apical abdominal bands enlarged 
in the middle. Bigotii. Bellardi. 
aaaa. Abdomen with apical triangular pale 
spots. 
Wings with one small spot at base of third 
long vein. Jamaicensis. n. sp. 
1. ‘Culex mimeticus. Noe (1899). 
(Boll. d. Soe. Ent. Italiana, xxxi. p. 240, Firenze (1899).) 
(Fig. 63, PJ. XYI.) 
Thorax brown, with dark stripes, and with golden curved 
scales. Abdomen brown, the segments with pale almost white 
basal bands, venter white. Legs brown, bases of the femora 
white ; metatarsi and tarsi basally white banded, slight apical 
bands as well. Wings spotted with brown and yellow along 
the costa, yellow spots three in number. 
9 • Head frosty-grey, with Rat white scales at the sides and 
creamy curved scales over the occiput, and with upright forked 
creamy scales behind ; proboscis with a broad creamy band on the 
apical half, dark brown basally, almost black apically, and some¬ 
what expanded ; palpi dark blackish-brown ; apex white; antennae 
brown ; basal joint of antennae ferruginous, one side dark, the 
other brown, base of second joint ferruginous. Thorax brown, 
with two median darker parallel lines in front, and two indis¬ 
tinct lateral patches behind when denuded, covered with scattered 
golden curved scales in front, almost white ones behind, in front 
of the pale brown scutellum ; metanotum brown ; scutellum pale 
brown, with creamy curved scales and long brown border-bristles ; 
