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A Monograph of Culicidae. 
Legs with the coxae yellowish, with numerous white scales, 
and with a row of pale bristles ; femora pale, creamy white at 
the base and beneath, with scattered dark brown scales above 
Fig. 155. 
Culex pulcripalpis, Rondani. 
a, Abdominal segment of ? ; b, segment of cf ; 
c, wing scales. 
and a few below near the apex only, deep brown above just 
before the apex, but still with a few white scales dotted about; 
extreme apex pure white, forming with the base of the tibia a 
white knee spot; tibiae deep brownish-black, speckled with 
white scales, and with a white band at the apex; in the fore 
legs the metatarsus is short, black, with a narrow apical white 
band, the first tarsal joint with a white basal band, the second 
with a trace of basal banding, the last two with dull grey scales, 
except just at their apices, which are black ; in another specimen 
the first tarsal is basally and apically pale scaled, and the last 
two dark; the mid legs are the same, except the first two tarsi, 
which are apically and basally banded, and the third basally ; 
the hind metatarsus and first two tarsi are broadly apically 
and basally banded, the third tarsus basally banded, and the last 
pure silvery white ; the legs have all the joints pale below; fore 
and mid ungues equal and toothed ; the hind ones small, equal 
and simple. 
Wings with the veins clothed with brown, grey, and white 
scales, the latter especially towards the base; veins yellowish, 
giving the first long vein a somewhat spotted appearance, the 
lateral scales long and thin; first sub-marginal cell a little 
longer and much narrower than the second posterior cell, its 
base just a little nearer the base of the wing than that of the 
