Genus Culex. 
415 
Wings covered with dark brown scales, the apical portions 
of the second to fifth veins with long lateral scales as well as 
broader median scales, which also extend down the stalk of the 
first long vein; first sub-marginal cell about half the width of 
the second posterior cell and much longer, its stem about the 
same length as the cell, as also is that of the second posterior 
cell ; posterior cross-vein about its own length distant from the 
mid cross-vein. 
Length. —5 mm. 
Time of capture. —November. 
Habitat. —Selangor (Butler) (28. 10. 1899) ; Klang Man¬ 
grove Swamps. 
Observations.—A. very distinct species, with tawny scaled 
unadorned thorax, pale pleurae, dark abdomen basally banded 
with creamy scales and with minutely banded legs. I know of no 
other species from the Straits Settlements that can be confused 
with it. I have not seen the male, a single 9 only being sent 
by Mr. Butler. The prothoracic lobes are very distinct. I have 
only placed it provisionally in this genus. 
43. Culex procax. Skuse. 
(Proc. Linn. Soc. N. 8. Wales, p. 1742.) 
(Fig. 76, PI. XIX.) 
Thorax black, with a few brownish-black and dull golden 
scales. Abdomen blackish, with basal white bands. Legs dark 
brown, femora pale beneath ; metatarsi and tarsi basally white 
ringed. Small sized, 3*8 mm. Ungues ecpial and simple 
in 9 • 
9 . Head black, with a few pale curved silvery scales in 
front and the middle, and with broad liat white scales forming 
lateral patches, with a few broad dark scales at the sides as well 
forming a small dark spot ; antennae very dark brown, with 
narrow pale bands ; palpi black scaled with a few grey ones ; 
proboscis deep ochraceous, broadly black at the tip and at the 
base. 
Thorax black, with a few brownish-black and dull golden 
curved scales; scutellum brown; metanotum deep brown ; 
pleurae deep umber-brown, with a few white scales. 
Abdomen black scaled, with narrow basal bands of white 
scales; venter black, with a few white scales. 
