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greyisli-yellow. Legs yellowish, with black tarsi and a little white at the 
base of each joint. 
Length. —2 lines/’ 
A very distinct species, with wings covered with white and 
brown scales and characteristically marked abdomen. The type 
is in the Jarclin des Plantes. 
The specimen came from Algeria. 
48* Culex imprimiens. Walker. 
(Proc. Linn. Soc. v. p. 144.) 
Thorax brown, with pale golden, narrow curved scales; 
abdomen black, with traces of pale basal bands and with white 
lateral spots; legs brown, with basal pale bands to metatarsi 
and tarsi. 
9. Head absent; thorax bright chestnut-brown, with 
narrow curved, pale golden scales; scutellum and metanotum 
bright chestnut-brown ■ pleurae chestnut-brown with some white 
scales. 
Abdomen black, covered with dusky black scales, two 
segments, the second and third, show’ a trace of pale scales along 
the base; there are also basal white lateral spots; venter 
creamy white, the apical borders of the first three basal seg¬ 
ments dark. 
Legs with the coxae pale brown, also the femora at their 
base and beneath, remainder of the legs dark brown, the base of 
the fore metatarsi and first tarsal joint with a narrow pale 
basal band ; in the hind legs the pale bands are wider; ungues 
of the fore feet equal and uniserrated. 
Wings with the fork-cells rather short, the first sub-marginal, 
being a little longer and narrower than the second posterior, 
their bases nearly level; stem of the former not quite as long as 
the cell, of the latter a little longer ; posterior cross-vein about 
twice its own length distant from the mid cross-vein; the third 
long vein is continued through the basal cell as a pseudo-vein; 
halteres with pale stem and fuscous knob. 
Length. —6 * 5 mm. 
Habitat. —Amboina. 
Observations. —Redescribed from Walker’s type in the British 
Museum. The head is absent, but beyond that the specimen is 
in moderate condition. The bright chestnut-brown thorax, with 
