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or triple; trans-sutural (f) usually triple; supraorbital single or double. Body 

 distinctly spicular. Upper lateral abdominal hairs usually double on segments 

 I and II and triple on III to VI. Comb of numerous scales in a patch; indi- 

 vidual scale rounded apically and fringed with subequal spinules. Siphon 

 slender, about six times as long as basal width, with a darkly pigmented band 

 at middle; pecten of numerous teeth on the basal third of siphon; individual 

 pecten tooth fringed on one side nearly to tip; about five multiple barbed sub- 

 ventral tufts inserted beyond pecten, the proximal tuft much longer than basal 



Fig. 149. Larva of Culex peccaior Dyar and Knab. A, Terminal 

 segments. B, Pecten tooth. C, Head. D, Comb scale. 



