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beyond subapical lobe more slender, and apex bluntly rounded; vestiture of 

 numerous setae, longer on outer aspects. Subapical lobe (S-L) prominent, 

 undivided, bearing three long rods with tips pointed and slightly hooked, a 

 large broad leaf-like filament, and two stout setae, one of which is recurved. 

 Dististyle (Ds) about half as long as basistyle, curved, gradually tapered 

 beyond middle, bluntly pointed at tip; terminal claw (Ds-C) short, blunt. 



LARVA. (Fig. 139). — Head broader than long. Antenna shorter than head, 

 slightly narrowed beyond antennal tuft, spinose; antennal tuft multiple, barbed, 

 inserted near middle of shaft, barely reaching tip. Head hairs: Preantennal 

 (A) multiple, barbed, reaching beyond insertion of antennal tuft; lower (B) 

 and upper (C) multiple, barbed, extending beyond preclypeus; postclypeal (d) 

 double; sutural (e) single; trans-sutural (f) multiple; supraorbital single or 

 double. Body glabrous. Upper lateral abdomirtal hairs double on segments I 

 and II, long and single on III to VI. Comb of numerous scales in a patch; 

 individual scale rounded and fringed apically with subequal spines. Siphon four 

 to four and one-half times as long as basal width; pecten of numerous rather 



Fig. 138. Culex resiuans Theobald. A, Male terminalia. B, Scutum and scutellum. 



