Genus Culicada. 



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one with pale scales all over it ; basal segment pale with flat 

 white scales only ; hairs pale golden ; venter mostly pale- 

 scaled. 



Legs with the femora pale ochreous and yellow with a 

 speckling of dark scales, apex white ; tibiae the same but rather 

 more dark scales ; first tarsals with still more dark scales, 

 especially apically ; other tarsals deep brown, the three following 

 on all the legs with basal white bands most pronounced on the 

 hind legs. Ungues all equal and uniserrate, black. 



Wings with brown scales and some scattered creamy ones, 

 especially basally ; the first sub-marginal cell longer and narrower 

 than the second posterior cell, which is broad : stem of the 



Fig. 119. 

 Wing of Culicada abfitchii. 



? . Felt, 



former half the length of the cell, of the latter as long as the 

 cell ; posterior cross-vein sloping backwards, about its own length 

 distant from the mid. 



Length. — 6 mm. 



$ . Palpi yellowish brown with three pale bands, hair-tufts 

 flaxen brown, most pronounced at apex of the antepenultimate 

 segment. 



Thorax and abdomen as in J . Antennae with flaxen brown 

 plume-hairs. 



Wings with the first sub-marginal cell very small, much 

 narrower and very little longer than the wide second posterior, 

 stems of both fork-cells about as long as the cells; posterior 

 cross-vein longer than the mid about its own length distant from 

 it. Ungues of fore and mid legs unequal, uniserrate ; hind ones 

 equal and simple. Genitalia with large basal lobes ; claspers a 

 little more than half their length, with long thin terminal 

 segment ; harpes long, enlarged near apex which is acuminate. 



Length. — 8 mm. 



