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A Monograph of Culicidae. 



Fig. 163. 

 Male genitalia of Culex vishnui. Theobald. 



The two apical segments of the palpi are equal in length, and 

 with very scanty hair-tufts, a few long hairs also at the apex of 

 the antepenultimate segment on one side. 



Culex annulifera. Ludlow (1903). 

 Journ. N. Y. Ent. Soc. Vol. XL, p. 141 (1903). 



Head with dark brown and light scales, two bands of white 

 on the sides ; proboscis with a broad median pale band. Thorax 

 dark brown, with curved creamy and white, irregular, indefinite 

 lines and spots. 



Abdomen dark, with basal white bands and traces of white 

 lateral spots. Legs basally pale banded on some of the segments. 



" $ . Head covered with dark brown and light scales, two bands of 

 white flat scales at the sides, curved creamy and dark forked scales on the 

 occiput, a narrow white rim around the eyes, and a few brown hairs 

 between the eyes ; antennae brown, verticels and pubescence brown, but 

 giving pale reflections, first segment testaceous ; palpi brown with small 

 white apex, with a very broad creamy-coloured band, equal to one-half or 

 more the length of the proboscis, between ; eyes brown. 



Thorax dark brown, covered with dark brown curved scales, with 

 curved white and creamy scales in irregular and indefinite lines and spots ; 

 scutellum dark brown with cream-coloured curved scales, hairs brown ; 



