Genus Culex. 163 
CULEX ANNULIORIS. Theobald. 
(Mono. Culicid. I., p. 371, 1901.) 
(Plate IX). 
Additional locaitity.—Pretoria (Dr. Theiler). A series of ¢’s 
and ?’s. No 6 had previously been received: 
6. Thorax and abdomen much as in the ?, no apical lateral 
creamy-white spots on the first and second segments. Palpi 
deep brown, with five creamy bands, the second from the base 
broad, the last forming the apex of the palpi ; plume-hairs black, 
except on the apical segment, where they are creamy-yellow, the 
apex with.a few black bristles; proboscis deep brown, with a 
narrow median pale band, swollen along its apical half ; antennae 
banded deep brown and grey, with black plumes (Plate IX). 
Legs deep brown, mottled to some extent with pale scales, femora 
pallid beneath ; tibiae brown, with small scattered pale scales, the 
banding of the tarsi involving both sides of the joints, except the 
last tarsus; fore and mid ungues unequal, both uniserrated ; 
hind small, equal and simple. 
Wings with brown scales, the linear lateral ones rather broad, 
some of the median ones almost Taeniorhynchus-like ; the first sub- 
marginal cell longer and narrower than the second posterior cell, 
its base a little nearer the apex of the wing than that of the 

Fig. 88. 
Wing of Culex annulioris, gf. Theobald. 
second posterior cell, its stem rather more than half the length of 
the cell; stem of the second posterior about two-thirds the 
length of the cell ; posterior cross-vein longer than the mid, twice 
its own length distant from the mid cross-vein. 
Length.—6 mm. 
CULEX GNOPHODES. 10. Sp. 
Thorax deep brown, with brown and fawn-coloured scales, the 
latter forming a curved paler area on each side, Proboscis black, 
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