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A Monograph of Culicidae. 
length of the cell; the two stems nearly equal; mid cross-vein 
a little nearer the apex of the wing than the supernumerary 
cross-vein; posterior cross-vein longer than the mid, nearly three 
times its own length distant from it; sub-costal joins the costal 
just before the base of the sub-marginal cell; border-scales of the 
fringe dark brown. Plalteres grey at the base, upper part of 
the stem and knob brown. 
Length. —3-5 to 3*8 mm. 
Habitat. —Lamma (Stanley) ; Tai Po, Pokfulam, Hong Kong. 
Time of capture. —October. 
Observations. —Described from several 9 ’ s i R Or. Rees’s Hong 
Kong collection. It resembles to some extent Culex Vishnui, 
but is rather darker, and the thoracic ornamentation differs. 
The posterior cross-vein is very far bafck, and the hind legs show 
only traces of banding, whereas the banding is most marked in 
the posterior legs of Vishnui. 
15. Culex sitiens. Wiedemann (1828). 
(Ausseurop. Zweifliig. Ids. p. 544.) 
Thorax dark brown, with scattered, golden, curved scales, 
rather more pallid in the centre; abdomen deep brown, with 
narrow, basal, ochraceous bands; venter ochraceous. Legs 
brown, with small basal pale bands on the fore and mid legs ; 
hind tarsi unbanded. 
9 . Head brown, with pale creamy curved scales close to 
the surface, and with numerous black upright forked scales, a 
small patch of flat white scales on each side. Antennae dark 
brown, with white pubescence and brown verticillate hairs, basal 
joint and base of the second joint pale testaceous; palpi short, 
thick, blackish-grey at the extreme tip; proboscis brown, almost 
black towards the apex, but the extreme apex yellowish, a yellow 
band towards the base of the apical half. 
Thorax dark brown, with scattered, curved, golden scales, 
which seem to be more pallid in the centre in front of the 
scutellum, which is dark brown with scattered curved, golden 
scales and a border of black bristles ; metanotum brown ; pleurae 
pale brown with white tomentum under the wings and a single 
patch of white scales over the middle legs. Abdomen covered 
with deep brown scales, the base of each segment with a narrow 
band of ochraceous scales, except the first segment, which has a 
