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Genus Culex. 20) 
CULEX SIMILIS. n. sp. ° 
Thorax reddish-brown, with very minute dull golden brown 
and a few black scales, and three double rows of black bristles ; 
pleurae pale. ochraceous; metanotum pale. Abdomen deep 
brown, with narrow pale basal bands, which on the last three 
segments spread out laterally. Legs deep brown, unbanded, 
coxae and venter of femora pale ; ungues small, equal and simple. 
Wings with typical Culex scales ; stem of the first sub-marginal 
nearly half the length of the cell. 
Q. Head brown, covered with narrow-curved very pale 
creamy scales and flat lateral ones and with numerous black 
upright forked scales ; antennae deep brown, with brown verticils 
and pale pubescence, basal joint and base of the second joint 
pale testaceous; palpi deep brown ; proboscis deep brown, apex 
testaceous. 
Thorax reddish-brown, scantily clothed with very small 
curved hair-like scales of a dull golden-brown to bronzy hue 
and a few scattered blackish ones, with three rows of black 
bristles, the median one double; metanotum pale ochraceous 
brown; scutellum pale brown, with a few minute black hair- 
like scales and seven deep brown border-bristles to the mid 
lobe ; pleurae nude, pale ochraceous, with a few black and pale 
bristles. 
Abdomen deep brown, with basal pale bands which spread 
out laterally on the last few segments; first segment fuscous 
with two median patches of black scales ; posterior border-bristles 
pale. Legs deep brown, with dull violet reflections, coxae and 
venter of femora pale, the fore femora rather swollen; apex of 
femora and tibiae with traces of pale spots ; ungues small, equal 
and simple. | 
Wings with rather dense typical brown Culex scales ; costal 
border deeper brown than the rest of the wing; first sub- 
marginal cell longer and narrower than the second posterior 
cell, its base nearer the base of the wing, its stem not quite 
half the length of the cell; stem of the second posterior cell as 
long as the cell; posterior cross-vein about its own length 
distant from the mid-cross vein ; fringe brown; halteres pale 
ochraceous, slightly darker at the top. 
Length.—5 mm. 
Habitat.— Jamaica (Dr. Grabham). 
Time of capture—March (2.3.02). 
