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Habitat .—Bupengary (Dr. Bancroft). 
Observations .—I can detect no structural difference in this 
specimen from C. annulirostris, in spite of its peculiar ornamenta¬ 
tion on the thorax, except a slight variation in the position of 
the posterior cross-vein. 
19. Culex sollicitans. Walker (1856). 
(Insect. Saund. p. 427 (1856), Walker; Cir. No. 40, 2nd se. U.8.A. Dept 
Agii. (1899), Howard.) 
(Fig. 64, PI. XYI.) 
Thorax dark brown, covered with thin, golden, curved scales ; 
pleurae dark brown, densely clothed with white scales. Abdomen 
dark brown, with a median yellow-scaled line, basal whitish- 
yellow bands and white lateral spots, the dark scales forming a 
black quadrangular patch on each side of the segments. Legs 
ochraceous, mottled with black and white scales ; mid and hind 
metatarsi with pale basal bands, also the tarsi; in the hind legs 
the last joint is almost all white. Wings with brown and 
almost white scales. Proboscis with a yellow median band. 
9 . Head brown, with dense golden, curved, hair-like scales, 
which project in front between the eyes as a dense tuft of hairs, 
a few flat ochraceous scales at the sides towards the back with 
small, thin, golden scales in front, sides of head blackish; 
antennae testaceous at the base, black for the remainder ; basal 
joint with ochraceous scales ; proboscis black, with a distinct 
yellowish-white band in the middle; palpi covered with dark 
brown scales and with a white apex; eyes silvery. 
Thorax almost black, thickly covered with golden-brown, 
thin curved scales ; scutellum similarly covered, and with bright, 
golden-brown bristles on the border ; metanotum chestnut-brown ; 
pleurae dark brown, densely clothed with white scales. 
Abdomen with creamy white to yellow scales, forming a 
central broad line and with basal white bands, with a dark 
brown to nearly black quadrangular patch on each side of the 
central mass of pale scales ; there are also white scales laterally 
on some of the segments ; venter clothed with pale creamy scales ; 
golden hairs to the posterior borders of the segments. 
Lears ochraceous, mottled with black and white scales, knee 
spots white; fore metatarsi without a basal white band, mid 
