Genus Culex. 
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45. Culex occidentalis. Skuse. 
(Proc. Linn. Foe. N. S. Wales, p. 1729 (1889).) 
(Fig. 71, PI. XVIII.) 
Thorax bright deep reddish-brown, with thin hair-like, 
golden scales. Abdomen dusky black, each segment with a 
narrow, yellowish-white, basal patch—not a distinct band, and 
also basal, lateral, white spots. Legs brown, femora white at 
the base’and beneath, metatarsi and tarsi with basal yellowish- 
white bands, broadest on the hind legs ; tibiae with golden 
bristles and pallid hairs. 
9 . Head brown, with long golden-yellow curved scales in 
the middle and bordering the eyes, and between them a band on 
each side reddish-brown in colour, composed of dark curved 
scales ; the back of the head clothed with golden curved and 
upright forked scales, a patch of pale creamy flat scales on 
each side, and then a patch of flat black scales; palpi black 
scaled, the apex white, and also a ring of white scales at the 
base of the fourth joint • antennae dark brown, with pale 
pubescence and pale rings, basal joint testaceous with yellow 
scales, basal half of the second joint also testaceous; proboscis 
black. 
Thorax bright deep reddish-brown, with numerous thin 
hair-like, curved, golden scales ; scutellum pale testaceous, with 
golden-yellow scales, paler than on the mesonotum, and long 
Fig. 151. 
Culex occidentalis*, Skuse. 
Abdominal banding and 9 ungues. 
brown bristles to the posterior borders • metanotum reddish- 
brown ‘ pleurae reddish-brown, with patches of creamy-white 
scales. 
Abdomen covered with dusky black scales, each segment 
with a narrow white basal patch, scarcely to be called a band, 
