Genus Culicada. 



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Apical segment of $ claspers with spines J median processes 

 broadly expanded apically. Fore and mid ungues unequal, hind 

 equal, all uniserrated. 



$ . Head deep brown, clothed with rather large, creamy, 

 curved scales, long, narrow ochreous upright forked scales in 

 front, with rather broader and shorter ones behind, and flat, 

 creamy lateral scales. Palpi, with the two long apical segments 

 nearly the same length, deep brown, with an irregular white 

 scaled basal area to each, and with blackish hair-tufts ; the long 



Fig. 121. 

 Male genitalia of Culicada waterhousei. Theobald. 



antepenultimate segments with two broad, creamy scaled bands, 

 the two apical segments with black hair-tufts, and also black 

 hairs on the apex of the antepenultimate. Antennae with very 

 deep brown plume-hairs. Proboscis deep brown, unhanded. 



Thorax black, with rather large, curved, pale golden scales 

 somewhat paler over the roots of the wings ; scutellum testaceous, 

 deep brown along the border of the mid lobe, and with a deep 

 brown patch on each side between the mid and side lobes, 

 clothed with rather large, narrow-curved scales of similar hue to 

 those of the mesothorax ; posterior border-bristles dense, pale 



