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greyish-white ones on the sides of the head ; antennae, palpi, and 
proboscis deep brown, the palpi with short pale golden hairs. 
Thorax reddish-brown, with scanty small bronzy-brown, thin 
narrow-curved scales and dark brown bristles, which show more 
or less clearly in lines ; scutellum paler brown, with thin narrow 
curved bronzy-brown scales ; metanotum deep chestnut-brown ; 
pleurae pale, ashy-grey. 
Abdomen pallid, covered more or less scantily with flat 
dusky-brown scales, narrow basal bands of white scales and 
brown border-bristles, the last two segments with the banding 
not so prominent ; the basal white-scaled bands look more pro- 
minent than they really are, owing to the few scales present 
allowing the pale integument to shine through ; venter pallid. 
Legs brown; coxae, base, and venter of femora pale grey ; 
the knee-spot and tibio-metatarsal joint pale, owing to an absence 
of scales ; ungues small, equal and simple. 
Wings with typical brown Culex scales ; first sub-marginal 
cell longer and narrower than the second posterior cell, its base a 
little nearer the base of the wing, the cell about two and a half 
times the length of the stem ; second posterior cell about one and 
a haif times the length of its stem; posterior cross-vein about 
two and a half times its own length distant from the mid. 
Halteres pale ochraceous. 
Length.—3 to 3°7 mm. 
6. Darker than the 9. Palpi brown; apical joints deep 
black, with black hairs, a trace of pale banding on the ante- 
penultimate segment. 
Antennae with deep brown 
plume-hairs ; proboscis brown, 
with long brown hairs beneath 
about the middle of its length. 
Thorax as in the 9? ; meta- 
notum and pleurae pale. 
Abdomen deep _ blackish- 
brown, with five prominent basal 
white bands, the last two spread- 


ing out laterally. Fig. 100. 
L b ‘ t Culex palus. n. sp. 
egs BOWE mC OX C6) NETIGEE Fore and mid ungues of ¢. 
of femora, and their base pale 
grey ; a prominent yellow spot at the tibio-metatarsal joint ; fore 
and mid ungues unequal, both uniserrated ; the tooth of the 
larger in the fore pair much bent downwards. 
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