376 A Monograph of Culicidae. 
Observations .—Described from a single ^ only. I cannot 
connect this with either of the two former species, although it 
presents certain striking similarities. It might be the male of 
C. annulioris, but the median white lateral spots and the differ¬ 
ently formed basal patches seem to separate it from that species. 
The ungues are very marked, and separate it at once from 
C. hirsutipalpis. 
23. CULEX DISSIMILIS. 11. Sp. 
(Fig. 67, PI. XVII.) 
I 
Thorax dark brown, with hair like golden scales. Abdomen 
dark brown, with basal pale semicircular bands, and white 
lateral patches on the last few segments. Legs pale ochraceous, 
with brown scales, the ground colour showing through in places ; 
metatarsal and tarsal banding involving both sides of the joints. 
9 . Head brown, with a few creamy-white curved scattered 
scales and a few brown' upright forked ones, and broader pale 
scales at the sides ; eyes deep purplish and coppery ; antennae 
brown, with pale pubescence and dark brown hairs ; basal joint 
brown; palpi covered with almost black scales; clypeus deep 
black ; proboscis black, with traces of a pale median band. 
Thorax dark brown, covered with scattered golden, curved, 
hair-like scales, a paler bare space apparently in front of the 
scutellum, numerous black lateral bristles, and a row of large 
black bristles on each side of the bare space; scutellum pale 
brown, with a border of black bristles (six in number) arising 
from tubercles; metanotum olive-brown; pleurae brown, with 
two patches of w r hite scales. 
Abdomen covered with deep brown scales, with here and 
there a bright ochraceous tinge, the base of each segment having 
a semicircular patch of creamy-white scales, not always forming 
a complete band, except in the last two segments, in which it 
nearly does so (Fig. 130, a) ; the first segment is almost white, 
with two small dark patches of scales in the middle ; posterior 
borders of the segments with golden bristles ; venter with mostly 
creamy-white scales ; there are also traces of white lateral patches 
on the last few segments. 
o 
Legs pale ochraceous, with brown scales scattered about, 
allowing the ground colour to show through ; base and apex of the 
metatarsi and first tarsal joints pale, and the base of the second 
