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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^ 



Tig. ir 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. 



Pig. 18 Tarsal claws : 1 C. cantans, 2 C. 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 



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



a rather broad basal band, slightly Avider 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; dorsal surface brown. Tarsi dark brown, almost 

 black; basal portions of segments ringed with yellowish white^ 



