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speckled with dark scales. Legs: Pale knee spots present. Femora largely pale 

 on inner surfaces, the outer surfaces clothed with intermixed dark brown and 

 pale scales; each femur with a narrow subapical pale-scaled ring (often indefi- 

 nite) . Tibiae predominantly pale, sparsely speckled with dark scales, the apices 

 usually dark. Hind tarsus with segments 1 mostly pale, usually speckled with 

 dark scales, blending into a dark ring at apex (apical dark ring variable in 

 width) ; segment 2 to 5 variably marked, but usually with basal halves p:ile, 

 apical halves dark. Fore- and mid-tarsi similarly marked, but with basal pale 

 rings lacking or greatly reduced on segment 4, absent on 5. Wing: Scales 

 rather broad, dark-brown and white, arranged more or less in definite patterns. 



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Fig. 82. Psorophora discolor (Coquillett). A, Wing. B, Male 

 terminalia. C, Crown of claspette. 



