Genus (Julex. 
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a few pale scales on the lateral lobes, border-bristles deep chestnut- 
brown, eight to the mid lobe ; metanotum deep umber-brown; 
pleurae umber-brown, with two patches of creamy scales. 
Abdomen steely-black when denuded, covered with dusky- 
black to deep brown scales, each segment with a triangular basal 
patch of creamy-yellow scales, and with apical lateral patches 
of yellow scales; posterior border-bristles golden-brown ; first 
segment with two median patches of black scales, separated by 
a few white scales. 
Legs with the coxae pale ferruginous-brown ; femora and 
tibiae with dark brown scales and scattered grey ones, giving 
a mottled appearance; femora somewhat pallid beneath, apex 
with a yellowish-white spot, metatarsi and tarsi dark brown, 
the base of the former a little paler, the other joints banded, the 
pale yellowish-white bands involving both sides of the joints, 
banding not distinct on the last two joints ; ungues of fore legs 
black, rather thick, equal, uniserrated ; of the hind legs equal 
and simple; femora and tibiae with a few bristles. 
Wings with the veins with brown scales and brown fringe of 
typical form; the first sub-marginal cell longer, very slightly 
narrower than the second posterior cell, their bases nearly level; 
both cells long; stem of the first sub-marginal less than one- 
third the length of the cell, about equal to the stem of the 
second posterior cell, posterior cross-vein a little more than twice 
its own length distant from the mid cross-vein; base of the 
wings testaceous. Halteres with a pallid stem and fuscous knob, 
with a few small dull grey scales. 
Length .—6 mm. (proboscis 2*5 mm.). 
Habitat. —Salisbury, Mashonaland (Marshal]) (79). 
Time of capture. —February. 
Observations .—Described from a single female in good pre¬ 
servation except the legs. This banded proboscis species can at 
once be distinguished by the abdominal ornamentation, which is 
very marked and peculiar. The proboscis band is more defined 
than in any species I have seen: 
22. Culex plumosus. n. sp. 
(?) the J of C. annulioris, mihi. 
Thorax dark brown, with bronzy-brown curved scales. Abdo¬ 
men brown, with basal yellow patches, the second to fourth bent in 
in the middle, the others semicircular ; white lateral spots median 
