Genus Culex. 181 
CULEX QUASIGELIDUS. ‘n. sp. 
(Plate XIII.) 
Head brown, with narrow-curved grey scales and black 
upright forked ones; proboscis with a median pale band. 
Thorax with anterior two-thirds pale scaled, the front portion 
with reddish-brown shading into silvery white, the posterior 
third dark scaled. Abdomen with basal pale bands or un- 
banded. Legs brown, with the femora and tibiae with yellow 
spots ; tarsi with narrow pale basal bands to some extent 
involving both sides of the joints, especially on the mid legs. 
9. Head brown, with narrow-curved pale scales and black 
upright fork-scales, except just in front, where they are ochra- 
ceous, scales at the sides of the head white, small and flat. 
Clypeus brown; palpi black, with a few white apical scales ; 
proboscis black, with a narrow median pale band; antennae 
brown. 
Thorax deep brown, with narrow-curved bright chestnut- 
brown scales in front, gradually becoming paler until they are 
pale silvery grey at about two-thirds across the mesonotum, 
where they end in an irregular line, the basal third of the 
mesothorax is covered with the same shaped deep brown scales 
and numerous black bristles ; scutellum deep brown, with narrow 
curved pale scales and rich brown border-bristles ; metanotum 
black ; pleurae deep brown. 
Abdomen variable, with or without banding, when banded 
the pale creamy bands are basal, the sixth segment with pro- 
minent white lateral basal spots, the seventh with the white 
scales extended down the side of the segment and with a few 
pale yellow median apical scales, the last segment with white 
basal scales ; border-bristles bright golden yellow ; venter dark 
brown, with basal pale lateral spots. 
Legs brown, the bases of the femora and their venter pale, the 
apical dark portion with pale yellow spots; tibiae brown, with 
about ten pale spots ; knees with golden tuft of hairs; the fore 
metatarsi and first three tarsi with basal pale bands, the mid 
with the tarsal bands involving both sides of the joints; the 
hind similarly banded, but the bands, although involving both 
sides of the joints, are mainly basal ; ungues equal and simple. 
Wings densely scaled, the third, the fourth, apical branches 
of the fifth with rather short broad median scales, the sixth with 
