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antennal tuft large, multiple, barbed, inserted at outer third of shaft, reaching 

 considerably beyond tip. Head hairs: Preantennal (A) multiple, barbed, 

 extending to insertion of antennal tuft; lower (B) single, barbed, extending 

 beyond insertion of antennal tuft; upper (C) single, barbed, about two-thirds 

 as long as lower (B) (either or both B and C occasionally double) ; postclypeal 

 (d) small, single; sutural (e), trans-sutural (f) and supraorbital double or 

 triple. Body finely spicular. Upper lateral abdominal hairs multiple on segments 

 I and II, double on III to VI. Comb of eighth segment of numerous scales in 

 a patch; individual scale rounded apically, fringed with subequal spinules. 

 Siphon slender, about seven times as long as basal width, slightly expanded 

 at the apex; pecten of 12 to 16 rather evenly spaced teeth on basal third of 

 siphon; individual tooth with 1 to 4 long coarse side teeth; four or five pairs 



Fig. 153. Larva of Culex apicalis. A, Terminal segments. 

 B, Head. C, Comb scale. D, and E, Pecten teeth. 



