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The eggs are laid just as in sollicitans, but they are larger. 

 Larvae occur in both salt and fresh water, but the latter is 

 preferred. 



Culicada nipponii. n. sp. 



Head and thorax deep brown, clothed with golden scales, 

 proboscis with scattered golden scales, with black apex, palpi 

 mottled. Abdomen deep brown with basal pale bands forming- 

 lateral patches on the fourth to sixth segments, the latter with 

 apical yellow scales and most of the segments with median grey 

 scales, scarcely, however, forming a median line. 



Legs deep brown with narrow basal pale bands. Wings with 

 yellowish brown scales. 



9 . Head deep brown with narrow-curved pale golden scales 

 and very thin pale brown upright forked scales, not much 

 expanded apically, lateral spatulate scales creamy white ; golden 

 chaetae between the eyes ; black on remainder of head ; palpi 

 testaceous with brown scales, densest near the apex, which has 

 white scales ; antennae deep brown, basal segment and base of 

 the second segment bright orange brown, with some small pale 

 scales ; proboscis with golden and brown scales, the former most 

 prevalent, except at the apex, where the proboscis is deep black. 



Thorax deep brown, clothed evenly with small narrow-curved 

 golden scales and with golden-brown and brown chaetae ; scutellum 

 with narrow-curved pale golden scales and golden-brown border- 

 bristles; metanotum rich brown; pleurae slate and grey and 

 brown with some pale scales. 



Abdomen with the basal segment testaceous, with a median 

 patch of creamy scales and rather short pale golden hairs ; the 

 second and third segments with basal uniform creamy bands ; on 

 the fourth, fifth and sixth the bands spread out laterally, forming 

 marked lateral areas ; the sixth and seventh have yellow apical 

 scales, and the second to the fifth have median pale scales which 

 form a broken median line ; venter pale scaled. 



Legs yellowish-brown, clothed with scattered brown and 

 yellow scales on femora and tibiae, so that they appear mottled ; 

 the first and other tarsals darker brown, a narrow pale basal 

 band to the second two fore and mid tarsals, to all the hind 

 tarsals ; there is a pale knee spot to all the legs ; fore and mid 

 ungues equal, large, both uniserrate, hind equal and simple. 



Wings with brown scales, a few pale ones on the basal area 

 in the costal region ; fork -cells rather short, the first sub-marginal 



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