Genus Culex . 
legs brown, with narrow basal pale rings to fore and mid tarsi, 
not so clear in the hind legs; ungues of 9 equal and simple. 
9 . Head dark brown, with narrow curved creamy-white 
scales on the occiput and venter, Hat white ones at the sides and 
numerous rather broad brown upright forked ones behind ; eyes 
deep purplish-black, with silvery reflections and a pale border ; 
antennae dark brown; palpi almost black, very scaly, a few dull 
grey scales at the apex, and a few black bristles at the base ; 
proboscis deep brown, with a broad yellowish-white band rather 
towards the apical half. 
Thorax dark brown, with traces of two paler parallel longi¬ 
tudinal lines, covered with narrow curved pale golden scales on 
the sides of the mesonotum (the dorsum denuded in all five 
specimens), and probably all over it; just in front of the root 
of the wings the scales are white, and also hi front of the 
scutellum; a few black bristles project over the base of the 
wings; scutellum pale brown, with eight border-bristles to the 
median lobe; the lateral lobes with the mamillae of the bristles 
very prominent, apparently four on the outer row and three on 
the inner; metanotum chestnut-brown; pleurae very pallid, 
almost grey, with a black spot in the middle and some creamy- 
white scales. 
Abdomen black and shiny when denuded, covered with deep 
brown scales and with basal bands of creamy scales, the bands 
swelling out rather in the middle, and in gorged specimens are 
almost white in colour; first segment with tw r o patches of black 
scales ; posterior border-bristles deep golden-brown ; venter mostly 
covered with dull creamy-white scales, the apical corners of the 
segments being dark. 
Legs with the coxae and venter of the femora grey, remainder 
dark brown, the metatarsi and tarsi with narrow pale yellow 
bands, chiefly basal, but involving, to some extent, both sides of 
the joints, last joint in the fore and mid legs unbanded ; ungues 
small, equal and simple. 
Wings with brown scales and browui fringe; the median scales 
of the veins broaclish and long, arranged mostly in a double row, 
the lateral ones thin, moderately long, and slightly curved at their 
base ; at the apex of the first long vein the broad scales are wider 
than elsewhere; first sub-marginal cell much longer and a little 
narrower than the second posterior cell, their bases nearly level; 
stem of the first sub-marginal about half the length of the cell, 
stem of the second posterior cell equal to about two-thirds the 
