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meet on top of the anterior part. The vertex back of the eyes 

 is clothed with golden yellow scales. The beak is black, the palpi 

 in the female (fig-. 94, 2) short, four- jointed, the two central 



Figure 94. 



Culex aurifer: i, female adult; 2, her palpus; 3, the anterior claws; 4, anterior, s. 

 middle, and 6, posterior claws of male: enlarged. (Original.) 



joints set with scales and moderately long, bristle-like hair; the 

 apical joint small, slightly longer than wide, covered with fine 

 short hair, and the basal segment destitute of scales, but with a 



