Genus Culex. 
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32. Culex vigilax. Skuse. 
(Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. Wales, p. 1731 (1889).) 
(Fig. 72, PI. XVIII.) 
Thorax deep brown, with black and bronzy spindle-shaped 
scales. Abdomen dark brown to black, with a purplish tinge, 
white basal bands, the last few segments with a yellowish tinge. 
Legs dark brown ; bases of the metatarsi and tarsi broadly white 
banded ; femora with scattered yellow scales. 
9 . Head dark brown, with long, black, upright forked 
scales in the middle, pale curved scales beneath, with a dark 
patch of flat scales on each side between two pale patches of 
similar shaped scales; eyes purplish-black; palpi black, with 
white scales at the apex; antennae dark brown, basal joint dark 
testaceous, base of the second joint paler testaceous ; proboscis 
black above, deep ochraceous from near the base to half the 
length below, base and apical half black. 
Thorax deep brown, densely covered with curved metallic 
black and bronzy spindle-shaped scales closely applied to the 
dorsum, giving a satiny appearance, with a few scattered golden- 
yellow curved ones ; scutellum almost black, with a testaceous 
tinge along the hind border in some lights, and with a few curved 
yellowish scales ; metanotum black ; pleurae deep purplish-brown, 
with a few patches of white scales. 
Abdomen covered with dark brown scales, the anterior 
borders of the segments having a band of white scales (i.e. basal 
bands), those of the last two or three segments with a yellowish 
tinge ; first segment with scattered 
wdiite scales and long golden hairs ; 
ventrally the abdomen is covered with 
white scales, except the anterior 
borders of the segments, which are 
dark, and on some of the segments 
is a small white lateral spot. 
Legs with the coxae with white 
scales ; femora covered with deep 
Culex vigilax, Skuse. 
purplish-black scales, with a few Fore and hind ungues of the d. 
scattered pale ones ; white scales pre¬ 
dominate on the ventral surface of the mid and hind femora, 
very slightly on the fore femora ; knees golden yellow; tibiae 
purplish-black, with a few scattered yellow scales; metatarsi 
