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A Monograph of Culicidae. 
58885. LEGS WITH FEMOKA AND TIBIAE SPOTTED; ABDOMEN 
APIOALLY PALE BANDED AND WITH BASAL WHITE SPOTS. 
65. CULEX MACULICRURA. n. Sp.* 
(Fig. 85, PI. XXII.) 
Thorax dark brown, covered with pale reddish-brown scales, 
with three round spots of paler scales, a median one in front, 
two lateral ones behind, from the latter runs backwards a pale 
line from both spots. Abdomen dark brownish-black, with 
apical borders of creamy-yellow scales, which are broadest on the 
last few segments; paler coloured apical borders in the £. 
Legs brown, with the femora and tibiae with a row of 
yellowish-white spots on one side. Ungues of 9 equal and 
simple; the fore and mid of the $ unequal, uniserrated; hind 
equal and simple. 
9. Head brown, with golden-brown curved scales and 
scattered black upright forked ones, with a tuft of orange 
bristles in front projecting forwards, and other dark bristles 
laterally. Eyes black, with a silvery lustre over part of their 
surface; antennae dark brown, with the basal joint pale testa¬ 
ceous, also the base of the second joint; a few broad yellowish 
scales on the second joint; palpi very dark brown, with a few 
pale scales internally ; proboscis deep brown to black. 
Thorax dark brown, covered with reddish-brown curved 
scales, with three round spots of pale yellowish scales, the front 
one median and often rather indistinct, the two hinder ones 
clear, from each there runs backwards a line of pale scales, more 
or less distinct; metanotum chestnut-brown; pleurae brown, 
cinereous below, with a few pale scales. 
Abdomen deep brownish-black (sometimes looking quite 
black under a lens), with an apical border of creamy scales, 
which are much the broadest on the last two segments; 
posterior borders fringed with golden hairs; first abdominal 
segment deep ochraceous, with two patches of dull purplish and 
yellow scales and with numerous pale hairs. 
Legs brown, with the coxae very pallid; femora paler below, 
deep brown above, with a row of yellowish-white spots on one 
side, knee spot yellowish-white ; tibiae deep blackish-brown with 
a row of creamy-white spots on one side with an ochraceous 
* Previously described as C. ticjripe «, Graudpre (1900). 
