Genus Culicada. 



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hairs ; abdomen mostly with simple ones. Comb with six or seven scales 

 arranged in a curve, each with a large, finely setose, spatulate base and 

 with a large, apical spine. Air tube three times as long as wide, tapering 

 regularly, with doable posterior pecten on basal third, each row consisting 

 of twelve to fifteen closely set stout, black spines, each bearing near the 

 basal third one large and usually a smaller tooth. Barred area short, dense, 

 bearing numerous long, branching hairs. Anal gills long, slender, uni- 

 formly tapering/' 



Culicada cinereojjorealis. Felt and Young (1904). 

 Culex cinereoborealis. Felt and Young. 



Science XX., No. 505, p. 312 (1904), nom. nud., Felt and Young; Bull. 79, 

 Ento. 22, N. York St. Mus., p. 312, pis. 7, 20, 21, 26, 36, 45, 52, 55, 

 Oct. (1904), Felt. 



" Thorax brownish-grey, with central portion browner ; abdomen brown 

 with basal white bands expanded at the sides ; legs dark brown, coxae 

 pale, femora light beneath ; ungues unidentate in $ , unequally toothed 

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? . Brownish-grey ; proboscis long ; palpi dark brown with base 

 lighter than tips; occiput with white narrow-curved leaf-like scales at 



Fig. 146. 

 Male genitalia of C. cinereoborealis. Felt. (After Felt.) 



centre, broad truncate ones at sides ; numerous upright, narrow, forked, 

 yellowish or dark scales are interspersed among the others ; black bristles 

 extend forward with a few yellowish ones on the median line ; antennae 

 dark brown, base of first joint pale. Thorax brownish-grey, a brown 



