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Abdomen narrow, densely hairy, basal bands very similar to 
the 9 ) hairs pale; claspers pale brown. 
Legs as in the 9 > hut the deep yellow banding more distinct ; 
fore and mid ungues unequal, the larger 
one with a large tooth, the smaller with a 
small one; hind claws small and equal. 
Length .—4 mm. ; of palpi, 3*8 mm. 
Habitat. —Freetown, Sierra Leone 
(Austen, 1899, 267 and viii., 1899). 
Obse vations .—Described from three £ ; s and two 9 s ? hred 
from larvae collected from water-butts and drains, at Mt. 
Clureol, Freetown, by Mr. Austen 1 , on the 9th of September. 
In the £ ’s, at least what I take to be the males, the proboscis 
has a distinct band; they were bred at the same time and from 
the same butts and puddles as the 9 3 described here. They 
might be mistaken for Culex masculus , but differ materially, as 
pointed out in the description of that species. 
24. Culex hiksutipalpis. n. sp. 
Thorax brown, covered densely with deep golden-brown scales 
and some pale creamy ones, the latter forming two more or less 
distinct spots on the mesonotum, scale ornamentation somewhat 
arranged in lines, the middle being somewhat darker than the 
rest of the thorax. Abdomen dark brown, with small, semi¬ 
circular, basal median yellow patches and yellowish-white basal 
lateral patches. Legs dark brown, tibio-metatarsal and tarsal 
joints with creamy-white bands involving both sides of the 
joints. Proboscis deep brown at the base, black at the apex, 
with a broad yellow band. Female ungues equal and simple. 
9 . Head brown, with pale creamy curved scales on the 
occiput, flat white ones at the sides, with numerous black, 
upright forked ones behind and at the sides, ochraceous ones in 
the middle in front; a narrow pale border round the eyes; eyes 
black with a silvery sheen ; palpi black scaled, with a few grey 
ones, especially at the apices; clypeus dark brown ; proboscis 
dark brown at the base, broadly banded with ochraceous in the 
middle, apical portion rather expanded, black, extreme tip 
testaceous. 
Thorax dark brown to almost black, clothed with narrow 
curved golden scales, with two eye-like spots of pale creamy 
scales on the mesonotum, pale creamy scales in front of the 
Fig. 131. 
Wing of cf Culex dissimilis. 
(X. 9.) 
