Genus Culex. 165 
positions of the fork-cells and cross-veins, and by the abdominal 
banding and ornamentation. The specimen was taken at the 
Rest House at Bruas, Dindings. 
CuLEX TRANSVAALENSIS. n. sp. 
Thorax deep brown, with golden-brown scales, ornamented 
with pale scales at the sides in front, and forming two eye-like 
spots in the middle of the mesonotum, almost white on the 
seutellum ; pleurae brown, with white scales ; proboscis pale 
ochraceous, black at the base and apex ; palpi black, with white 
scales. Abdomen black, with broad basal white bands. Legs 

Fig. 89. 
Culex Transvaalensis. Theobald. 
a, Abdomen of 2 (last four segments not 
completed); b, 2 palp. 
brown, with broad basal white bands ; femora, tibiae, and meta- 
tarsi mottled with white ; ungues uniserrated. 
@. Head brown, with narrow-curved grey scales, except in 
the middle, where they are bright ochraceous, laterally a patch of 
flat black, and then flat white scales, upright forked-scales black ; 
palpi (Fig. 89, b) densely scaled with black scales and a few white 
