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Fig. XXXVIII. Adult of brown woods mosquito. Aides stimulans Walk. (After 

 John B. Smith.) 1, female adult; 2, anterior claws; 3, anterior, 4, middle 

 and 5, posterior claws of male (all enlarged). 



Palpi in female brown; four- jointed, apical one small, oval, pointed at 

 apex and distinctly spiny or hairy. In male palpi wholly brown, basal 

 joint twice as long as two apical ones taken together. Antennae of male 

 plumose, paler than palpi, with shape and number of segments as usual. 

 Female antennae normal. 



Thorax dark brown, covered with short, upright scales, the yellow 

 ones scattered over the surface, often collected into stripes. Legs with 

 the femora pale brown darker at the apex, and yellowish beneath ; tibiae 

 with mixed yellow and brown scales, dark brown at apex ; tarsi dark 

 brown, almost black; broadly white-banded at base of joints in poste- 

 rior legs. In middle tarsi bands are narrower and almost lost in anterior 

 tarsi. 



