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31. CULEX HIRSUTUM. H. Sp. 
(Fig. 80, PL XX.) 
Thorax dark chestnut-brown, with dull creamy scales forming 
a broad median line and four creamy spots. Abdomen dark 
umber-brown, with basal yellowish-white bands and with two 
large dull yellow apical spots on the fifth and sixth segments ; 
venter mottled with black, yellow and white scaled patches. 
Legs with broad basal white bands, femora, tibiae and metatarsi 
hirsute, bases of the femora pale, remainder black, with a few 
pale scales. Ungues of $ unequal on the fore and the mid legs, 
the larger uniserrated, the smaller simple. 
5 . Head with narrow curved grey scales in the middle, 
which are yellow in front between the eyes, forming two rows 
with a bare space between; laterally are first a patch of flat dark 
scales, then flat creamy-white ones, then a few dark and pale flat 
ones, more or less mixed; the occiput is covered with scattered, 
black upright forked scales and the eyes bordered with pale 
creamy ones; between the eyes are two rows of golden bristles 
projecting forwards ; palpi short, dark brown, with numerous 
pale scales at the apex; antennae with the basal joint testaceous 
and dark brown with numerous pale yellow scales, next few 
joints rather testaceous, remainder brown ;• proboscis covered 
with ochraceous scales, black at the apex, and a few black scales 
at the base, especially beneath. 
Thorax dark brown, covered with deep chestnut - brown, 
narrow curved scales, ornamented as follows with pale creamy 
scales of similar form : a broad rather indistinct median line and 
a pair of round spots on each side of it, also a few pale creamy 
scales at the sides of the mesonotum, the posterior pair of spots 
sometimes irregular in form, numerous black bristles which 
become brighter brown over the roots of the wings; pleurae 
brown with patches of small flat white scales; scutellum paler 
brown with narrow curved pale scales, eight bristles to the 
median lobe and numerous ones to the lateral lobes ; metanotum 
deep chestnut-brown. 
Abdomen covered with dusky umber-brown to black scales, 
with basal bands of yellowish-white scales, which spread out 
laterally, forming more or less lateral patches ; the first segment 
is ochraceous, with a median patch of dull white and brown 
scales and numerous golden-brown hairs; in the second segment 
