Genus Culex. 
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d . Palpi dark scaled with pale apex, and two narrow and 
two broad pale bands, the base with a very narrow pale ring ; 
apical tuft dark brown ; antennae banded, plumes dark chestnut- 
brown. Proboscis swollen towards the end, with a pale yellow 
band. The white basal banding of two of the last abdominal 
segments spreads out laterally ; the penultimate segment mostly 
white. Anterior and mid claws unequal, the larger one with a 
large tooth, the smaller simple. 
Length. —5*2 mm. 
Habitat. —Quilon, Travancore, Southern India (James) (7. 3. 
1900); Madras (Cornwall). 
Time of capture .—January and February. 
Observations .—Described from a good series sent by Captain 
James from Southern India. It is evidently closely related to 
the former species, but can at once be told by its browner colour, 
with the more yellowish and smaller leg banding, and by the 9 
ungues being untoothed. 
The species seems to be common in Southern India, and 
occurs in the North. Captain Cornwall has given me a single 
specimen from Madras. 
Lieut.-Col. Giles says it is common in the N.W. Provinces, and 
persists in a tolerably active state throughout the cold weather, 
and was in Shahjuhanpur the only species that attempted to bite 
during December. The pupae have a relatively short air-tube, 
and can by this character be easily distinguished from those of 
C. fatigans, which were the only species of Culex whose larvae 
were to be found in his garden tanks at this season. These 
notes he sends under the heading of C. impellens , Walker, but on 
examining the specimens I find they exactly agree with my 
C. microannulatus, there being no distinct ti bio-metatarsal band 
as seen in C. impellens, and they are not so dark. They bite very 
viciously. 
13. Culex Yishnui. n. sp. 
(Fig. 66, PI. XVII.) 
Thorax brown, with fawn-coloured scales, two more or less 
distinct median lines and a thin central one formed by a row 
of bristles. Abdomen deep brown, basally banded with pale 
yellow, some of the apical segments with a narrow row of apical 
yellow scales as well. Legs brown, tarsi darker, narrowly basally 
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