Genus Culex. 
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the basal band sends a median process down the segment; on the 
fifth and sixth segments are two large, apical, pale yellow 
patches of scales, which extend nearly to the basal bands, 
posterior borders with pallid bristles; the last segments dark 
brownish-black, unbanded ; venter marked with black, white and 
yellowish-scaled patches. 
Legs with pale coxae with dull yellow scales ; femora pale 
grey at the base and below, dark brown towards the apex, 
with scattered pale scales, and a crown of white scales at the 
apex; tibiae with a white basal band, remainder dark brown, 
mottled with pale yellow scales ; metatarsi dark brown, with 
scattered pale scales and a basal band of white scales, the first 
three fore tarsi black with basal white bands, last joint dull 
yellowish-brown; mid tarsi with the banding more distinct and 
the last joint paler than the rest, yet showing signs of basal 
banding ; on the hind legs the basal banding is still broader ; 
ungues of the fore and mid legs equal, uniserrated, teeth basal; 
femora, tibiae and metatarsi with large c-haetae. 
Wings with the veins covered with deep brown scales of 
typical Culex form ; both fork-cells rather short; first sub 
marginal a little longer and narrower than the second posterior 
cell, its base just a little nearer the base of the wing than that of 
the latter, its stem equal to rather more than half the length of 
the cell; stem of the second posterior cell about two-thirds the 
length of the cell; posterior cross-vein rather more than its 
own length distant behind the mid cross-vein; costal border 
dark brown, almost black ; basal lobe of the wing with long 
pale hairs, second lobe with a row of black settles. Halberes 
pale ochraceous. 
Length .—4 to 4*5 mm. 
£ . Head black, with a few curved wdiite scales in front and 
on the crown, black and white flat scales at the sides and 
numerous black upright forked ones ; the black side scales form 
two black spots, and some of the front upright scales have an 
ochraceous tinge; palpi (Fig. 137, a) dark brown with a basal 
yellowish band, another broad yellow band near the middle and 
a narrow pale band at the base of the last two joints, the 
penultimate joint about half as long again as the last joint, both 
slightly swollen, hair tufts on the last two brown; proboscis 
ochraceous brown with brown scales, dark at the apex; antennae 
banded brown and grey, with dark flaxen-brown plumes, the last 
two joints very long and thin (Fig. 137, b). 
