Genus Culex. 159 
Dr. Grabham writes of this species as follows :—“I was 
attacked a few days ago at dusk while passing through a swamp 
close to the sea, about five miles away from Kingston, by a 
number of mosquitoes ; amongst them were Culex taeniorhynchus.” 
CULEX NOCTURNUS. n. sp. 
Thorax deep brown, covered densely with narrow-curved, 
bright brown and pale golden scales, scarcely showing any 
definite ornamentation ; proboscis with a minute black tip and 
base, remainder ochraceous. 
Abdomen deep brown with basal white bands curved in the 
middle ; legs deep brown, paler at their bases, hind metatarsi 
and all the tarsal joints with basal white bands, the fore and 
mid with iast two tarsi unbanded. Wings unspotted. 
@. Head brown, with narrow curved pale golden scales on 
the crown, with black upright forked scales, flat black scales at 
the sides with a median white patch ; palpi covered with deep 
brown scales; apex with yellow scales and a few scattered 
yellow scales over their whole length ; antennae brown, basal 

Fig. 86. 
Culex nocturnus. Nn. sp. 
a, Head; b, abdominal ornamentation. 
joint and base of second joint testaceous; clypeus brown ; 
proboscis with black apex and base, the broad median area 
golden brown. 
Thorax deep brown, with narrow-curved pale golden and 
brown scales, with no well-defined arrangement, but giving the 
