Genus Culex. ES 
creamy scales and long brown border-bristles ; metanotum brown, 
prothoracic lobes distinct, with narrow-curved, pale scales, with 
dense upwardly projecting brown bristles ; pleurae brown and 

Fig. 113. 
Head of Culex Cumminstt. @Q. n. sp. 
pro, Prothoracic lobe. 
leaden-grey, with numerous flat creamy-white scales and golden 
hairs. 
Abdomen deep brown, unbanded, with large basal, white, 
lateral spots, the apical segment with a few white basal scales, 
ovipositor blackish; posterior border-bristles golden; venter 
paler than the dorsum, with ochraceous hue, with pale creamy 
scales and the apical borders of the segments dark. 
Legs deep brown, coxae brown, base and venter of femora 
pale ; ungues of the fore and mid legs large, equal and uniser- 
rated, hind ungues absent. 

Fig. 114. 
Wing of Culex Cumminsti. Q. n. sp. 
Wings with the first sub-marginal cell considerably longer 
and a little narrower than the second posterior cell, its base a 
