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A Monograph of Culicidae. 



to ten flattened, somewhat diamond-shaped scales arranged in a 

 slightly curved row. 



Professor E. P. Felt says : When mature they reach 5 ' 5 mm., 

 but may reach 6 * 5 mm. Colour, dirty white or yellowish, almost 





Fig. 205. 



Protoculex^) dupreei. Coquillett. 



a, Antenna ; b, siphon and anal segment ; c, scale of 8th 



segment ; d, scale of siphon comb ; e, labial plate. 



(After Smith.) 



transparent ; head yellow with faint dusky area on apex ; 

 antennae short, pale yellow, apex with four short spines and a 

 small joint, a few small stout spines on surface, lateral tuft of 

 three thin hairs just above the middle ; labial plate triangular, 

 13-16 equal teeth on each side of apex ; comb of eighth segment 

 of a single regular curved row r of scales, narrow and acuminate 

 and finely hairy; pecten of siphon with 9-13 spines, very 

 acuminate, slightly curved, and with three to four teeth near 

 base ; anal gills very long, thin, and acuminate, the latter 

 forming a very marked character. 



nov. geAi. 



Genus BANKSINELLA. 



Head clothed with a small median area of narrow-curved 

 scales, and broad lateral areas of flat scales. The $? palpi short, 

 of three segments, the apical one long, longer than the two basal 



