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banded with yellow; ungues of 9 equal, simple. Head with 
ochraceous scales and a dark lateral patch. 
9. Head covered with small, curved, pale ochraceous 
scales, and with similarly coloured upright forked ones, a few 
small white ones bordering the eyes and a patch between them in 
front; there is also a dark lateral patch of flat scales; antennae 
brown, with bright testaceous basal joint and basal half of the 
second joint; palpi dark brown, with a few pale scales at the top ; 
eyes purple; proboscis deep ochraceous, covered with dark brown 
scales, apex pale, a broad yellow band at the base of the apical 
half, rather enlarged towards the tip. 
Thorax brown, covered with fawn-coloured, curved scales, 
which are paler in front of the scutellum and in front of the 
Fig. 119. 
1. Culex annulirostris, Skuse, sub-sp. Bancroftii. n. s. sp. 
2. Culex taeniorhynchus, Wied. 
3. Culex Vishnui. n. sp. 
a, b, c = ungues ; cl, e, f = apices of the wings. 
roots of the wings, with two parallel, bare, dark, longitudinal 
lines in the middle, three rows of black bristles, one median 
and forming a rather dark central line, and a number over the 
roots of the wings; scutellum ochraceous, with jiale curved scales 
and dark brown bristles; metanotum pale ochraceous brown; 
pleurae pale ochraceous. 
Abdomen covered with deep brown scales, each segment with 
a broad basal band of creamy-white to yellow scales, last seg¬ 
ment white-scaled; the last few segments may have an apical 
single row of pale scales as well, so that the banding involves 
both sides of some of the segments ; bristles of the posterior 
border pallid; venter with the segments with pale ochraceous 
scales, with narrow blackish apical borders. 
