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CULICADA ABSERRATA. Felt (1904). 



Culex abserratus. Felt and Young. 



Culex panctor. Dyar and Smith (non Kirby). 



Science N. S. XX., 505, p. 313 (1904), nom. nud ; Mosq. N. York State, Bull. 

 79, Ent. 22, N. Y. St. Mus., p. 329 (1904), Felt; Kept. Ent. Dep., 

 N. Jersey, Exp. St. for 1905, p. 681 (1906) Smith ; Proc. Ent. Soc. 

 Wash. VI., p. 39, and Journ. N. Y. Ent. Soc. XII., Dyar. 



Head with ochreous scales ; palpi of ? and proboscis deep 

 brown ; thorax with golden-yellow scales, traces of a narrow 

 median dark line, a broader brownish one on each side, 

 ornamentation very obscure. Abdomen dark brown with basal 

 white bands, prolonged laterally on the last few apical segments. 

 Legs brown, unhanded ; <j> ungues all uniserrated. 



$ . Head deep brown, with rather large narrow-curved 

 pale ochreous scales and ochreous upright forked scales ; 

 proboscis long and thin, deep blackish-brown with violet 

 reflections ; palpi brown, of four segments, the apical one minute, 

 the penultimate large ; antennae blackish, basal segment pale 

 testaceous, darker on the inside with a few small flat pale 

 scales. 



Thorax deep brown, clothed with thin narrow-curved golden- 

 yellow scales, the median ones running parallel with the long 

 axis of thorax, the lateral ones obliquely, thus giving an orna- 

 mented appearance to the mesonotum, the median area appearing 

 somewhat darkened, and it has a very thin median nude line ; 

 posterior and lateral bristles pale golden ; scutellum testaceous 

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

 bristles bright brown ; metanotum testaceous, dark in the middle ; 

 pleurae rich brown with small flat grey scales. 



Abdomen deep brown with basal white bands, which spread 

 out laterally on the fifth, sixth and seventh segment, border- 

 bristles pale ; venter mostly pale scaled. 



Legs deep brown ; femora pale grey beneath ; tibiae bristly ; 

 ungues all equal and uniserrated, rather thick ; hind tibiae 

 slightly shorter than the femora. 



Wings with the fork-cells rather small, the rirst sub-marginal 

 longer and narrower than the second posterior, their bases nearly 

 level, that of the first sub-marginal slightly nearer the base of 

 the wing, its stem rather more than half the length of the cell ; 

 stem of the second posterior nearly as long as the cell ; posterior 



