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spotted with dark scales. Legs: White knee spots present. Femora largely pale 

 on inner surfaces, the outer surfaces dark, liberally speckled with pale scales; 

 each femur with a narrow subapical whitish-scaled ring (often indefinite). 

 Tibiae dark, somewhat mottled with pale scales. Hind tarsus with segment 1 

 white-ringed basally, dark ringed sub-basally and apically; the area between the 

 dark rings comprises about half the segment and is clothed with intermixed 

 dark and pale scales, the pale predominating; segments 2 to 5 pale scaled on 

 basal third or basal half, the remaining portions dark. Fore- and mid-tarsi 

 similarly marked, but with the white scaling reduced on segment 4. absent on 

 5. Wing: Scales rather broad, intermixed white and dark-brown to black. 

 Apical half of costa with two conspicuous spots of dark scales separated by a 

 longer area of white scales; scales of vein 6 intermixed dark and white on basal 





Fig. 86. Psorophora stgnipenms (Coquillett). A. Wing. B. Male terminalla. 



