Genus Culex. 
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Thorax bright chestnut-brown, with 
narrow curved golden scales, and four 
rows of bristles ; abdomen with 
regular white bands; ungues of 5 
equal, uniserrated in fore and mid 
legs... rubithorax . Macquart. 
Abdomen with curved basal white 
bands and basal white spots; thorax 
with hair-like scales, and three rows 
of bristles . occidentals. Skuse. 
, Like the above, but wings with yellow 
scales as well as brown .. flavifrons. Skuse. 
5555. Abdomen with basal and apical band¬ 
ing and a median yellowish-grey 
line. maculiventris. Macquart. 
55555. Abdomen with bands on some of the 
segments only. 
Bands showing on the second and 
third segments, basal white lateral 
spots distinct... iwprimien Walker. 
555555. Abdomen unhanded, with white lateral 
spots. 
First tarsal joint all white. terrens. Walker. 
Tarsi black, with honey-coloured 
joints; first joint (= metatarsus) 
with yellow ciliae; thorax black 
with grey tomentum . tibialis. Desvoidy, 
27. Culex Japonicus. n. sp. 
Culex aureostriatus. Doleschall (?). 
(Fig. 70, PI. XVIII.) 
Thorax deep reddish-brown, with three median, nearly 
parallel, narrow golden stripes, ajid on each side a lateral curved 
golden-scaled line. 
Abdomen black, with basal white bands. 
Legs black, femora pale at the base, tarsi with basal white 
bands. 
5 . Head dark brown, with a narrow row of broad white 
curved scales in the middle ; flat black ones and then flat white 
ones on the crown and sides; eyes black, bordered with a thin 
line of white scales; palpi and proboscis dark brown ; antennae 
brown, with minute white pubescence, very faintly banded with 
minute pale bands. 
Thorax dark reddish-brown, with three median nearly 
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