Genus Culex. Le: 
CULEX CORNIGER. 0. Sp. 
Thorax chestnut-brown, surrounded with creamy scales, which 
also form an inwardly projecting branch on each side to half way 
across the mesonotum ; abdomen black, with basal white median 
patches forming almost bands and basal white lateral spots. 
Wings with deep brown-scaled veins. Legs black, femora and 
tibiae with apical white spots; metatarsi and tarsi with apical 
and basal banding, most prominent on the hind legs; proboscis 
black, with an indistinct trace of pale banding. 
2. Head brown, covered with narrow-curved pale golden 
scales, ochraceous upright forked scales in the middle and dark 
ones at the sides, showing as two indistinct dark lateral patches, 
the scales around the eyes and at the sides very much paler than 
those on the occiput ; clypeus, palpi and antennae black ; pro- 
boscis deep brown basally, black towards the apex, with an 
indistinct pale band on the apical half. 
Thorax deep brown, with narrow-curved brown scales, 
chestnut-brown in some lights, almost bronzy in others, the 
sides of the mesonotum with a broad band of pale creamy scales, 
from which springs on each side an inwardly projecting branch 
half across the mesonotum about its middle; in front of the 
scutellum are a few grey scales, and 
on the mid lobe of the scutellum a 
prominent patch of the same, border- 
bristles long, rich brown, eleven to 
the mid lobe ; metanotum deep brown ; 
pleurae paler brown, with a patch of 
grey scales. 
Abdomen black, with basal creamy 
curved patches scarcely forming com- 
plete bands, small basal lateral white 
spots, which are very prominent on the 
penultimate segment; on the venter 
the abdomen has broad basal creamy 

Fig. 93. 
bands; posterior border-bristles pale, Mesothorax of Culex corniger. 
shortest in the middle of each segment. ren 
Legs deep brown to almost black, apices of the femora and 
tibiae pale, the metatarsi and tarsi with apical and basal pale 
bands, very indistinct on the fore legs, distinct and broader on 
the hind legs, except the last tarsal joint, which scarcely shows 
any banding ; ungues small, equal and simple. 
