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extremely small circular knob, slightly retracted within the third 

 joint. The male palpi (fig. 41, 5) are a little longer than the 

 beak, not dilated, the basal joint with a slight angulation just 

 before the middle; color brown, with the terminal joint white at 

 the base. The fan-like tufts toward the tip though long are not 

 dense. The antenna of the male is plumose, longer than the basal 

 segments of the palpus, the two terminal joints long and slender, 

 others cup-shaped, with the usual circle of long silky hairs. 

 The female antenna is slightly longer than the beak, joints of 

 uniform lengths, brown, white at the base, set with rather short 

 stiff hair over the surface and with a circle of long bristles at the 

 base of each. 



Figure 100. 



Culex mclanurus : i, anterior; 2, middle, 3, posterior claws of; the male; 4, palpus of 

 female: all much enlarged. (Original.) 



The thorax is evenly brown, covered with very short spinv 

 hair. The legs are dark brown, with the under side of the femora 

 yellowish white. In the male the inner claw of the anterior tarsal 

 joint is long, with a median and basal tooth ; the outer claw is 

 smaller and has only a single tooth near the base. The claws 

 of the mid tarsal joints are much the same, except that they are 

 a little longer and more slender, while the claws of the hind 

 tarsal joints are simple. In the female the claws are alike on all 

 feet, being the same as the posterior ones of the male. 



The abdomen is dark brown, very narrowly banded with 

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