170 A Monograph of Culicidae. 
The species is very variable; some show distinct abdominal 
banding, others none at all. It somewhat resembles C. Duttoni, 
but it is smaller, more fragile, and the legs have only faint basal 
banding, and the fork-cells are slightly different. This species 
and C. Duttoni come very close together, but are evidently 
distinct. 
CULEX ANARMOSTUS. nN. sp. 
Thorax dark brown to brown, with two darker median 
parallel lines on the denuded surface, covered with pale, dull 
golden, narrow-curved scales, showing faint longitudinal arrange- 
ment. Proboscis with a pale creamy band. Abdomen brown, 
with curved basal white bands. Legs brown, with faint apical 
and basal pale banding. Ungues equal and simple. 
Q. Head brown, with narrow-curved pale creamy-grey scales, 
brown upright forked ones and small flat white ones at the sides 
and whitish curved ones around the eyes; proboscis brown, with 
a median pale band, very distinct beneath ; palpi black, with a 
few white scales; clypeus black; antennae dark brown, basal 
joint testaceous. 
Thorax brown to almost black, covered with narrow curved 
golden scales, somewhat paler behind, to some extent arranged 
longitudinally ; scutellum paler brown, with pale narrow-curved 
scales ; metanotum deep brown; pleurae pale brown and cinereous, 
with a few patches of grey scales. 
Abdomen deep brown, with curved white to creamy white 
basal bands; first segment nude, save for two median patches of 
black scales; border-bristles pale; venter white, with narrow 
apical borders of brown scales. 
Legs brown; femora pale ventrally ; apex of tibiae white ; 
base and apex of the metatarsi and first two tarsals pale banded ; 
also a white knee-spot on the hind legs; femora and tibiae 
bristly ; ungues equal and simple; hind tibiae about the same 
length as the hind metatarsi. 
Wings with brown scales, those of the third and fifth being 
the darkest ; first sub-marginal cell longer and a little narrower 
than the second posterior cell, its base a little nearer the base of 
the wing than that of the latter, its stem half the length of the 
cell; stem of the second posterior about two-thirds the length of 
the cell; posterior cross-vein about its own length distant from 
the mid-cross vein, the median vein-scales of the third, fifth, and 
