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dark brown, segments narrowly ringed at the base with white; 

 occiput clothed with brown scales, with a row of silvery ones just 

 above the eyes and along the median line. Thorax with a broad;, 



Fig. 17 Wing- of Culex fitchii 



brown, central stripe bordered with a rather well defined, silvery, 

 slightly broader, lateral stripe containing a few brown blotches. 

 Pleura rather thickly clothed with patches of silvery white scales. 



Fig. 18 Tarsal claws :lC.cantans,2C. fitchii 



Abdomen brown, with broad, basal, yellowish white patches, those 

 of the anterior three segments being distinctly prolonged on the 

 median line and with a slight indication of the same laterally, 

 giving a somewhat lobular appearance ; the other segments with 



Fig. 19 Labial plate of C . f i t c h i i 



a rather broad basal band, slightly wider in the middle. Ventral 

 surface thickly covered with silvery white scales. Coxae clothed 

 with white scales; inside of femora and tibiae thickly mottled 

 with the same; d'orsal surface bro«vn. Tarsi dark brown, almost 

 black; basal portions of segments ringed with yellowish white^ 



