Genus Culex. 
tarsal joints, giving a banded appearance, the bands thus involving 
both sides of the joints ; hind legs showing no trace of banding 
in one specimen, but three distinct pale bands in another, 
involving both sides of the joints. 
Wings with the veins edged with moderately long brown 
scales ; the first sub-marginal cell a little longer and narrower 
than the second posterior cell, its base a little farther from the 
Fig. 130. 
Culex dissimilis. n. sp. 
a, Abdominal ornamentation ; b, ungues of the ; 
c, male palpus and proboscis ; d, male Scutellum. 
base of the wing than that of the latter ; the stems shorter than 
the cells, that of the posterior cell only about half the length of 
the cell; posterior cross-vein loijger than the mid cross-vein, and 
distant from the latter about its own length. Halteres pale 
ochraceous. 
Length .—4 mm. 
<$ . Head as in the 9 i palpi longer than the proboscis, dark 
brown, with four white bands, the second from the base being 
the broadest, the two apical ones narrower and not so clear, the 
tip with a small apical (fifth) pale band ; hair-tufts brown ; 
proboscis dark brown, with a pale band towards the basal end 
of the apical half. 
