Genus Culex . 
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9 . Head black, with a narrow border of thin golden 
curved scales around the eyes, then a broad band of black flat 
scales, then golden curved ones behind, and a few flat creamy 
ones at the sides, some golden curved ones also forming a central 
mass towards the eyes, with dark and golden-brown upright 
forked scales; eyes silvery ; antennae dark brown, basal joint 
and base of second joint ochraceous; palpi testaceous at the 
base, bkick at the top, with black scales ; proboscis black, the 
apex and base and down the centre and sides of the mid region 
with ochraceous and brown scales; clypeus dark brown. 
Thorax bright chestnut-brown, with scattered golden curved 
scales, with four double rows of brown bristles; scutellum 
chestnut-brown, with golden scales and brown bristles; meta- 
notum chestnut-brown, with a purplish patch on each corner of 
the base ; pleurae chestnut-brown, with patches of white scales; 
prothoracic lobes with flat black scales and black bristles. 
Fig. 150. 
Culex rubithorax, Macq. 
Thorax, apex of abdomen, and head. 
Abdomen clothed with dusky, purplish-black scales, each 
segment with a narrow basal band of creamy-white and with 
white lateral spots, the last segment unmarked, the two preceding 
•with the white spots showing on the dorsum and with very faint 
basal banding; each segment with a row of golden bristles on 
their posterior borders; venter white scaled, with some apical 
black scales. 
Legs with the femora ochraceous, with dusky scales, pale 
beneath, and a minute yellow knee spot on the hind legs; tibiae 
black, with golden bristles; fore metatarsi and tarsi black 
scaled, the former and the first tarsal joint faintly pale at the 
base; in the mid legs the basal bands a little more distinct, and 
a trace on the second tarsal joint; hind metatarsi and tarsi 
basally pale banded, metatarsi shorter than the tibiae; ungues 
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