Genus Culicada. 



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Thorax dark with golden brown 

 and golden scales, those at the 

 sides paler and brighter than in 

 middle and forming two more or 

 less pale narrow lines nemorosa. Meigen . 



Culicada fitchii. Felt and Young (1904). 



Culex fitchii 



Felt and Young. 



Mosq. N. Y. St. Bull. 79, Ent. 22, N. Y. St. Mus., p. 281 (1904) ; 20th Kept. 

 St. Ent. N. Y. St. Mus. Bull., 97, Ent. 24, p. 451 (1905). 



Closely related to abfitchii, but the mesonotum has broad 

 sub-median rich brown vittae bordered laterally by a broad area 

 of pale creamy almost silvery scales and a median thin dark line. 

 No bare median head line as in abfitchii. 



9 • Head deep brown, with narrow-curved scales in the 

 middle becoming browner, then small flat scales which are almost 



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Fig. 111. 



Cephalic and thoracic adornment of a, Culicada subcantans, Felt ; b, C. fitchii, 

 Felt ; c, C. abfitchii, Felt. 



white with two patches of dark ones ; forked scales pale creamy 

 to white in the middle, black behind and at the sides. 



Palpi almost black with some white scales, both at apex "and 

 on the basal area. Proboscis dark brown (Felt says " rather 

 thickly flecked almost its entire length with silvery-white scales "). 

 Antennae brown, basal segment testaceous with a patch of small 



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