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style (Bs) about two and one-half times as long as basal width; outer margin 

 curved, portion beyond subapical lobe more slender, apex bluntly rounded; 

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

 prominent, undivided, bearing three long stout pointed rods usually somewhat 

 hooked at tips, a large broad leaf-like filament, and two stout setae, one of 

 which is recurved. Dististyle (Ds) about half as long as basistyle, curved, 

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

 blunt. 



LARVA. (Fig. 141). — Head broader than long. Antenna shorter than head, 

 constricted beyond antennal tuft, with portion before constriction spinose, 

 portion beyond constriction darker and with few spines; antennal tuft large, 

 multiple, barbed, inserted at outer third, reaching beyond tip of antenna. Head 

 hairs: Preantennal (A) multiple, barbed, extending to insertion of antennal 

 tuft; lower (B) and upper (C) usually 3-branched, barbed, extending beyond 

 preclypeus; postclypeal (d) rather long, single; sutural (e), and trans-sutural 

 (f) multiple; supraorbital usually double. Thorax glabrous, although occasion- 



~Ds-C 



Vlll-T 



Fig. 140. Male terminalia of Culex salinarius Coquillett. 



