Genus Culex, 
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in front of the base of the anterior fork-cell and slightly behind the tip of 
the anterior branch of the fifth longitudinal; supernumerary and middle 
transverse veins in one line, and fully their united length outside the 
posterior transverse. Fork-cells both narrow and of nearly equal width, 
but the anterior the longer. Their stems short, the posterior being a 
little the longer, so that the base of the corresponding cell is slightly 
outside that of the anterior fork-cell. Halteres pale yellow. Legs 
fuscous, the tarsi with minute ochreous basal bands to all the joints; first 
posterior tarsal longer than the corresponding tibia in both sexes. Abdomen 
fuscous, with rather narrow yellowish-white basal bands to the segments, 
broaden in the middle than laterally, especially on the anterior segments. 
Length of wing of d 2’4 mm.; of $ 3 mm. 
Habitat. —India. 
Observation.—A minute species, of generally dusky tinting and 
proportionately long legs. 
Note.—I have not found this species in the collections sent me 
by Lt.-Col. Giles, but I have seen one specimen from India that 
resembled this triple-banded proboscis gnat, but on examination 
it proved to be C. Vishnui, with the proboscis rubbed, so as to 
resemble two extra bands. 
18. Culex annulirostris. Skuse (1889). 
(Proc. Linn. Soc. N. 8. Wales, p. 1737 (1889).) 
Thorax deep brown, with flat bronzy spindle-shaped scales. 
Abdomen black, with basal white bands. Legs black, femora 
pale beneath and at the base, metatarsi and tarsi with basal pale 
bands. Proboscis banded white. 
9 . Head dark brown, clothed with pale curved scales, white 
at the sides and forming a narrow border round the eyes, and 
with scattered black upright forked ones on each side and pale 
upright forked ones in the middle in front; eyes deep purple, 
almost black ; clypeus dark brown ; palpi deep brown, with the 
apex pale owing to the white pubescence ; antennae dark brown, 
basal joint deep testaceous brown ; proboscis deep brown, with a 
broad white band near the middle. 
Thorax deep brown, with curved flat bronzy spindle-shaped 
scales, with a slight golden-brown tinge in some lights ; three 
longitudinal dark lines seen plainly on the denuded mesonotum ; 
scutellum brown, paler than the mesonotum ; metanotum brown ; 
pleurae umber brown, with pale hairs. 
Abdomen covered with black scales, the segments with basal 
