Genus Cule 



x. 



413 



Legs blackish-brown, apex of femora and tibiae creamy and 

 the ventral surface of the segments including tarsi with grey 

 scales, seeming to be of irregular arrangement ; ungues equal and 

 simple. 



Wings with typical deep brownish-black Culex scales; first 

 sub-marginal cell considerably longer and slightly narrower than 



Fig. 176. 

 Wing of Culex dyari. 9 . Coquillett. 



the second posterior cell, its base very slightly nearer the apex 

 of the wing than that of the second posterior cell, its stem 

 more than half as long as the cell, the stem of the second 

 posterior cell nearly half the length of the cell ; supernumerary 

 and mid cross- veins almost in a straight line ; posterior slightly 

 longer than the mid, about its own length distant from it ; 

 halteres deep ochreous with fuscous and grey scales on the knob. 



Length. — 4 mm. to 4 • 8 mm. 



<£ . Palpi deep brown, a few golden hairs at base of apical 

 segment, others dark brown, a pale apex to the antepenultimate 



Fig. 177. 

 Wing of Culex dyari. <jT. 



Coquillett. 



segment, and some white scales on its median area ; the two last 

 segments slightly swollen, the apical most so ; the latter shorter 

 than the penultimate. Ungues of fore and mid legs unequal, the 

 larger in both biserratecl, the smaller uniserrated, hind pair equal 

 and simple. 



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