Genus Culicada. 



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the bases and apex of the first and greater part of the second 

 tarsals white ; hind legs as in the mid ; knee spot white. 



9 . Head with rather broad narrow -curved scales, deep 

 brown except for a median line of golden ones and pale ones 

 around the eyes with flat white ones laterally ; palpi and proboscis- 

 deep blackish brown ; antennae brown, basal lobe with grey 

 sheen on one side with black bristles ; second segment with dense 

 black scales. 



Thorax deep shiny blackish brown with rich brown narrow- 

 curved scales in the middle with broader creamy-curved scales at 

 the sides, especially dense in front, with narrow-curved brown 

 scales on the scutellum ; pleurae deep brown with silvery puncta ; 

 metanotum black. 



Abdomen deep blackish brown with golden border-bristles 

 with basal silvery white lateral spots. 



Anterior legs deep brown, a narrow white band at the base 

 of the first and other tarsals ; mid legs with base of femora and 

 under side white, a broad creamy white band at base and apex 

 of the first tarsal, and a very broad basal pale band to the 

 second tarsal ; hind legs with the femora white on basal half and 

 with a white apex, banding similar to the mid legs but not so 

 wide and whiter ; fore and mid ungues equal and uniserrate, 

 hind equal and simple. 



Wings with dense brown vein scales, the first sub-marginal 

 cell considerably longer and narrower than the second posterior 

 cell, its base nearer the base of the wing, its stem about one- 



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Fig. 126. 

 Wing of Culicada JluviatUis. 9 



Lutz. 



fourth the length of the cell, stem of the broad second posterior 

 cell about two-thirds the length of the cell ; posterior cross-vein 

 about one and a third times its own length distant from the mid. 

 Length, — 4 to 5*5 mm. 



