Germs Culex. 
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wing are also somewhat different to most Calicos, for the central 
scales of the veins are longer than is normally the case. 
Lt.-Col. Giles appends the following note to his description of 
the insect :— 
“ Essentially a sylvan species, though I have taken a speci¬ 
men in the verandah. The larvae are found in pools in the 
course of the (perfectly clean) freshwater surface drainage system, 
Fig. 173. 
Larva of Culex pulcriventer. (After Giles ) 
through which in heavy rain a perfect torrent of water flows. 
They are darkly tinted, about 8 mm. long when mature, and 
have a short spiracle no longer than the last two abdominal 
segments and but little longer than the anal papillae. The head 
is yellow at the sides. The pupae are large and nearly black. 
I have not been able to induce imagines, newly escaped, to 
bite.” 
72. Culex lateralis. Meigen. 
(Syst. Beschr. Eur. Zweif. i. 5, 5, Meigen; Spec. Ital. d. Gen. Culex; Boll. 
Soc. Ent. Ital. (1872), Rondani; Fn. Austr. ii. 629, Schiner; Dipt. 
Neer. 328, Van dor Wulp.) 
(Fig. 87, PI. XXII.) 
Thorax black, covered with bronzy-brown scales, with a 
narrow median white line and broad white lateral lines, con¬ 
tracted about the middle of the mesonotum, numerous pale scales 
in front of the scutellum. Abdomen dusky-black, with basal 
lateral white patches. Legs with pale coxae and bases to the 
femora, knee spot white, remainder dark brown. Halteres nearly 
white. 
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