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the sides defining a brown central stripe. The beak and legs 

 are unhanded and the abdomen has bands of a dirty white color 

 at the base of the segments. 



Description of the Adult. 



This is a very small mosquito, measuring 4-4.5 mm.,^.i6- 

 .18 of an inch in length excluding the beak. The head is dark 

 brown and has many pale yellow scales scattered over the occi- 



Figure 93. 



Ciilcx inconspicuus : i, terminal segments with anal siphon; 2, a single scale of the 8th 

 abdominal segment; 3, normal siphonal spines; 4, varietal forms of siphonal spines; 5. 

 mentvim: all much enlarged. (Original). 



put : the proboscis and female palpi are dark brown, almost black, 

 the former about half the length of the body. In the male the 

 palpi are evenly dark brown, slender, dilated apically and longer 

 than the proboscis by the terminal and half of the penultimate 

 joints. The antennae are brown in both sexes with the basal two 

 joints in the female pale testaceous. 



The dorsum of the thorax is dark brown, covered with pale 

 yellowish scales at the sides, limiting a rather broad central stripe. 



