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creamy-white apical borders. Legs deep brown, unhanded, 

 femora pale at base and ventrally ; knee spot pale. Male palpi 

 dark. 



9 . Head brown, with narrow-curved pale grey scales, dark 

 upright forked ones behind, pale ones in front, sides with flat 

 white scales ; proboscis deep brown ; palpi deep brown with a 

 few pale scales at the base ; clypeus brown ; antennae deep 

 brown, basal segment brown to deep brown with some small flat 

 grey scales ; palpi of three segments, the apical one long, the 

 penultimate short and broad. 



Thorax brown, clothed with dull golden-brown narrow-curved 

 scales, with two median parallel bare lines, showing rather dark 

 against the rest of the thorax, chaetae very long, dark and 

 golden-brown ; prothoracic lobes grey, with pale narrow-curved 

 scales and brown chaetae ; scutellum pale brown with narrow- 

 curved pale scales ; pleurae pale greyish with some flat white 

 scales. 



Halter es very pale. Legs deep brown to jet black, femora 

 white beneath, their apex and the apex of the tibiae white ; 

 ungues small, equal and simple (the tibiae are also pale ventrally, 

 and in some lights they and the tarsi show deep violet reflections). 



Abdomen deep blackish-brown with dull violet reflections, 

 the apical borders of the segments with pale creamy scaled bands, 

 appearing almost white in some lights ; basal segment with two 

 patches of flat black scales ; venter pale grey to white. 



Wings with typical Culex scales ; the first sub-marginal cell 

 much longer and a little narrower than the second posterior cell, 

 its base nearer the base of the wing, its stem rather more than 



Fig. 198. 

 Wing of Culex territans. 9 • Walker. 



one-fifth the length of the cell ; stem of the second posterior cell 

 about two-thirds the length of the cell ; cross-veins very faint, 

 the posterior rather more than twice its own length distant from 

 the mid cross-vein. 



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