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J. W. SCOTT MACFIE AND A. INGRAM, 



Culex insignis, Carter (fig. 8). 



Living larva grey in colour, with very dark hairs on the anal segment. The head is 

 large ; the antennae dark and covered with spicules ; the hair-tuft, which is prominent 

 and consists of plumose hairs, is inserted at three-quarters of the length of the antenna. 

 The palp is seen to be large when the larva is viewed from the side and the brush is 



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Fig. 8. Culex insignis, Carter. 



well developed. The median frontal hairs consist of double hairs which are plumose. 

 The anterior thoracic hairs are single and long. The comb is composed of about 

 70 scales arranged in a triangular patch. The subsiphonal plume is formed of plumose 

 hairs, the siphonal of subplumose hairs, and the anal plume appears to consist of 



