Genus Culex. 
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towards its apex; tibiae dark brown, with yellow apex, black 
hairs and golden spines; metatarsi and tarsi dark brown, with 
pale apical and basal banding; hind metatarsi as long as the 
hind tibiae, also with golden spines ; fore and mid ungues 
unequal, the larger one with two large teeth, the smaller with 
one small tooth, hind ungues equal and simple ('?). 
Wings with a yellowish-brown tinge, the veins partly denuded, 
but those that remain have the median scales single or double 
rowed, flat and broadish, deep brown; first sub-marginal cell 
a little' longer and much narrower than the second posterior 
Fig. 128. 
Culex plumosus. n. sp. 
a, Male genitalia ; b, abdominal ornamen¬ 
tation ; c, male palpus (damaged). 
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Culex plumosus. n. sp. 
e, Ungues ; d, bristle tufts on 
thorax. 
cell, its stem longer than the cell; second posterior cell broad, 
much shorter than its stem ; posterior cross-vein about the same 
width as the mid cross-vein, and about half its length distant 
from it. 
Halteres with pale stem and fuscous knob. Basal joints of 
the genitalia narrow, hairy, claspers long and thin. 
Length .—6 * 5 mm. 
Habitat. —Salisbury, Mashonaland (Marshall) (79). 
Time of capture. —March. 
