Genus Ct dex. 
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Thorax brown densely covered with curved hair-like golden 
scales ; scutellum brown, with narrow curved pale golden scales, 
the mid lobe with several rows of long golden-brown bristles ; 
metanotum chestnut-brown ; pleurae ochraceous. 
Abdomen densely clothed with ochraceous scales, with a few 
black ones dotted about in one specimen; coxae ochraceous; 
femora ochraceous; tibiae pale brown ; metatarsi very pale ochra¬ 
ceous and also the tarsi, with black apices, giving them a broadly 
basally pale banded appearance. 
Wings scaled much as in C. pipiens , first sub-marginal cell 
longer and narrower than the second posterior cell, the bases of 
the two fork-cells nearly level; second posterior cell rather short 
and broad ; posterior cross-vein not quite its own length distant 
from the mid cross-vein ; stem of the first sub-marginal cell not 
quite as long as the cell, stem of the second posterior cell as long 
as the cell. 
Ungues of the fore and mid legs thick, underrated, equal. 
Length. —6 mm. 
Habitat .—U nknown. 
Observations.— Described from four old specimens in the Hope 
Collection at Oxford. Three were named Culex lutescens, one Culex 
Jiavescens. There are no data attached. They are certainly not 
C. lutescens , Fabr., for the tarsi are banded, whilst in C. lutescens 
the tarsi are brown. They resemble in form Culex cardans , but 
the abdomen is densely clothed with ochraceous scales, and the 
metatarsi and tarsi are really pale ochraceous with narrow black 
apical bands. 
41. Culex Vagans. Wiedemann. 
(Auss. Europ. ZweifLiig. Ins. p. 545.) 
Thorax clear brown, with golden-brown scales; abdomen brown, 
with white basal bands; legs brown, with yellowish reflections 
and with broad basal white bands; wings with the fork-cells 
short, with brown scales ; fore and mid ungues equal, underrated. 
9 . Head deep brown, with narrow golden curved scales, 
brown upright forked ones and flat creamy ones at the sides ; 
eyes black and silvery ; palpi with dark brown (nearly black) 
scales, white scaled at the apex and with two other imperfect 
white scaled rings; antennae deep brownish-black, base of the 
second joint ferruginous-brown ; proboscis ochraceous, black at 
the apex. 
