Genus Guleoc. 
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9 . Head dark brown, densely clothed in the middle with 
pale golden curved scales and numerous upright forked ochraceous 
ones in front, similar black ones behind ; at the sides of the head 
is a patch of flat black, then flat white scales ; antennae dark 
brown, basal joint dark testaceous, base of the second joint 
bright testaceous ; palpi black scaled, the apex with white scales ; 
clypeus dark brown; proboscis with very dark brown scales, 
becoming jet black at the tip. 
Thorax deep brown, covered with thin curved hair-like 
golden scales, which become almost white in front of the scu- 
tellum, with four rows of black bristles and with a tuft of dark 
a b 
Fig. 143. 
Culex sylvestris. n. sp. 
a, Abdomen of 9 ; b, head and enlarged scales of 9 ; 
c, scutellum ; d, ungues of 9 5 e, fore ungues of cf • 
brown bristles over the roots of the wings; scutellum deep 
brown, with pale curved scales and with a complex row of 
median border-bristles; pleurae umber brown, with patches of 
white scales ; metanotum chestnut-brown. 
Abdomen steely-black, covered with dusky deep purplish- 
black scales, the base of each segment with a band of pure white 
scales bent in at the middle, the last two segments with apical 
white bands, the penultimate one with apical and basal, the 
apical expanded in the middle; first segment deep ochraceous, 
with light and dark scales and three patches of pale hairs ; 
posterior borders of the segments with short pale golden hairs; 
