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being very long as in C. bicolor. It might even be a small variety 

 of the latter. 



Culicada bicolor. Meigen (1818). 

 Culex bicolor. Meigen. 



Syst. Beschr. I., p. 9 (1818), Meigen; Zool. Journ. I. (1825), Stephens; 

 Syst. Cat. Brit. Ins. II., p. 232 (1829), Stephens; Mem. d. 1. Soc. 

 d'hist. nat. de Paris III., p. 409, 29 (1827), Rob.-Desvoidy ; Bull. Soc. 

 imp. d. nat. d. Moscou (1845), Gimmerthal; Fau. Aust. Die Fliegen, 

 p. 627 (1864), Schiner ; Ann. Mus. Nat. Hung. III., p. 90 (1905), Theobald ; 

 Les Moust., p. 372 (1905), Blanchard. 



Head brown with narrow-curved pale golden-yellow scales, 

 ochreous and black upright forked ones. Thorax brown with 

 golden narrow- curved scales, with traces of darker longitudinal 

 lines. Abdomen scaled with dull yellow scales all over. Femora 

 and tibiae with dull yellowish reflections, tarsi dark brown. 



9 . Head brown with scattered pale golden narrow-curved 

 scales, with ochreous upright forked scales centrally, black 

 towards the sides, lateral areas clothed with pale creamy flat 

 scales ; palpi brown clothed with dark and pale creamy scales, 

 the latter predominating, bristles black ; proboscis ochreous, 

 darker towards the apex ; antennae deep brown, basal segment 

 testaceous, also the clypeus. 



Thorax greyish-brown with darker longitudinal lines, clothed 

 with narrow-curved pale golden scales and with dark brown 

 bristles • scutellum pale testaceous with narrow-curved dull 

 golden scales and brown border-bristles nine to the mid lobe ; 

 metanotum bright chestnut brown ; pleurae yellowish with some 

 pale scaled areas. 



Abdomen black more or less completely clothed with dusky 

 yellow scales, but on the fourth segment the scales are somewhat 

 darker in two areas giving a bi-spotted appearance (not seen in 

 all lights) ; posterior border-bristles and lateral hairs pale golden ; 

 venter similarly coloured. 



Legs with the coxae, femora and tibiae of a dull ochreous 

 hue, the tibiae darker (almost brown in some lights) than the 

 two former, all the tarsals dark brown ; ungues all equal and 

 simple. 



Wings with typical Culex-scales, the first sub-marginal much 

 longer and slightly narrower than the second posterior cell, its 

 base much the nearer to the base of the wing its stem about one 



