Genus Culex. 
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28. Culex aureostriatus. Doleschall. 
(Natur. Tijdsch. v. Ned. Ind. Deel xiv. p. 385.) 
“ Black, the dorsum of the thorax marked with five glittering golden 
lines, three parallel and an oblique one on either side; abdominal segments 
bordered white; wings hyaline, with black scales; hind tarsi long, marked 
with white. 
Length .—If lines. 
“ ? . (Proboscis relatively large, straight, porrect and curved upwards. 
Antennae and eyes black, the back of the head grey. Thorax not very 
convex, moderately broad, black, with equally wide, parallel, longitudinal 
stripes, reaching from the anterior border to half the length of the thorax, 
of a shiny golden colour; behind these is a pair of oblique lines of 
similar colour, extending from near the middle outwards and forwards. 
Abdomen black and cylindrical, with a bluish lustre; the hind border of 
each segment pure white, broader on the sides than in the middle. The 
legs slightly hairy, slender and black, the posterior much longer than the 
anterior, with four white tarsal bands ; upper half of hind femora pure 
white. Wings as long as the abdomen, veins black scaled. 
Habitat. —Amboina, in dwelling-rooms.” 
29. Culex vittiger. Skuse, 
(Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. Wales, p. 1728 (1889).) 
(Fig. 139, PI. XXXV.) 
Thorax with pale golden-grey scales and four prominent deep 
rich brown stripes ; abdomen mostly covered with dull golden- 
grey scales, which are more or less scanty on the middle of the 
basal segments, giving them a banded appearance ; legs brown, 
with narrow basal pale bands on the fore and mid, and broad 
ones to the hind tarsi, the hind metatarsi mostly pale, with a 
small apical black band. Wings with yellowish-brown scaled 
veins, tinged with testaceous along the costa ; fork-cells very 
short. 
9 . Head brown, clothed with rather long, loose pale 
curved scales in front, and with similar ochraceous ones behind, 
and with numerous thin upright forked ochraceous ones over the 
occiput; the flat scales on the genae very small; eyes deep 
purplish-black ; antennae with the basal joint bright ochraceous, 
with numerous black hairs, second joint mostly testaceous, the 
apex just darkened, the next three or four joints more or less 
testaceous except at the base, remainder dark brown ; clypeus 
dark brown; palpi long, the apical joint mamilliform, the 
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