Genus Culex. 
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laterally, with pale golden bristles in front. Eyes purplish, with 
a coppery lustre. Palpi black, with a few white scales at the 
tip. Antennae brown, with pale pubescence and brown hairs, 
basal joint, and the base of 
second joint pale testaceous ; 
proboscis black, with a pale 
band a.t the base of the apical 
half. 
Thorax dark brown, covered 
with pale golden, curved, hair¬ 
like scales ; scutellum dark 
brown, with pale curved scales ; 
metanotum dark brown ; 
pleurae brown, with a patch 
of pale scales over the mid 
legs. Fig. 122 . 
A hflnmpn pnvpvprl witii Head of Culex impellens, Walker, and tibio- 
AUt ™ eu cuvLI ea NV 1111 metatarsal jointing of leg. 
dusky purplish-brown scales, 
each segment with a narrow basal band of dull white scales, and 
their posterior borders with pallid hairs ; venter with pale 
yellowish scales forming basal bands to the segments. 
Fore legs with a pale knee spot and a yellow spot at the 
apex of the tibia; mid legs with a pale band at the tibio- 
metatarsal joint, involving both sides of the joint and traces of 
basal banding on the first two tarsal joints ; hind legs with a 
pale spot at the end of the femora and base of tibiae, a distinct 
band on the tibio-metatarsal joint , a small band at the base of the 
first two tarsi, with a very faint trace on the third. 
Wing of 5 Culex impellens, Walker. (X. 11.) 
Wings with the first sub-marginal cell a little longer and 
narrower than the second posterior cell, their bases about level ; 
posterior cross-vein nearly three times its length distant from 
the mid cross-vein. 
Length. — 4 * 5 mm. 
Habitat .—Perak (Wray) ; 1ST. W. Provinces, India (Giles), 
