Genus Culex. 
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Legs brown, tarsi dark, pale banded basally, ventral surfaces 
of femora greyish, knee spots dull white ; tibiae brown, with 
ochraceous reflection towards the tips; metatarsi of mid and 
hind legs with a narrow, yellowish, basal band, those of the hind 
legs equal in length to the tibiae; first three tarsi of all the 
legs basally pale banded, those of the hind legs with the bands 
whiter and more distinct; ungues simple. 
Wings with the veins clothed with long, thin, brown scales; 
first sub-marginal cell a little longer 
and narrower than the second pos¬ 
terior cell, its stem equal to about 
half the leno-th of the cell, its base a 
& 5 . Fig. 120 . 
little nearer the apex of the wing wing of ? Culex vishnui. n. sp. 
than that of the second posterior cell; 
post, cross-vein more than twice its own length distant from the 
mid cross-vein, the upper branch of the fifth forming a sharp 
angle where it joins the cross-vein. 
Halteres pale ochraceous. 
Length .—3 to 4*5 mm. 
£ . Head dark* brown, with pale scales and whitish flat ones 
at the sides; antennae banded black and white with umber- 
brown plumes ; palpi banded yellow and black, the second joint 
Fig. 120A. 
Culex Vislmui. n. sp. 
I. and II. Two forms of abdominal ornamentation in $ ; 
III. same in the cf ; IV. fore ungues of the cf. 
apically yellow, the third yellow in the middle ; the fourth and 
fifth narrowly yellow at the base, hairs brown ; proboscis with a 
yellow band as in the 9 • Abdomen narrow, with the basal 
