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A Monograph of Culicidae. 
distinct yellow bands; the last joint slightly spatulate and 
truncated, the penultimate and antepenultimate with brown 
hairs, with sometimes flaxen reflections on the latter; the palpi 
themselves are yellowish, the black colour being due to dark 
coloured scales; proboscis yellow, dark at the base and apex. 
Thorax bright chestnut-brown in the middle, darker brown 
at the sides, ornamented with two parallel median lines of 
narrow curved golden scales close together, another line of 
golden scales on each side in front, another golden line on each 
side behind, bending down laterally about the middle, a bare 
space between the two lateral median lines on each side bright 
chestnut-brown; there are also golden scales dotted over the 
darker sides between the lateral lines and three double rows of 
black bristles and numerous golden-brown ones over the roots of 
the wings; scutellum pale ochraceous grey, with pale golden 
curved scales forming two tufts on the middle lobe, and eight 
golden-brown long bristles with intermediate small ones on the 
mid lobe, and seven large dark and other small brown ones 
to each lateral lobe; metanotum ochraceous brown, with a 
median dusky line; pleurae pale brown, with traces of white 
scales. 
Abdomen steely-black, clothed with dark brown scales, each 
segment, except the first, with a basal band of creamy-white scales, 
which on the last few apical segments spread out laterally and 
towards the middle; posterior borders of the segments with long 
golden hairs and the sides with long brown hairs, $ genitalia 
with long golden hairs. 
Legs with the coxae pale brown, femora at the base and 
beneath on the basal half grey, upper part and apex dark brown, 
knee spot yellow; tibiae yellow, covered with dusky brown 
scales, apex bright yellow, bristly; fore metatarsus and tarsi 
black scaled, the penultimate joint small, the last pale beneath ; 
in the mid legs there is a narrow indistinct yellow band at the 
base of the metatarsus and first tarsal joint, remainder black ; 
in the hind legs the first tarsal joint has an apical and basal 
narrow yellow band, the second tarsal a basal one only, also a 
pale band at the base of the metatarsus involving the apex of 
the tibia; hind metatarsus about two-thirds the length of the 
tibia; ungues of fore and mid legs unequal, black, the larger one 
with two, the smaller with one tooth; hind ones of moderate 
size, equal and simple. 
Wings long, the veins clothed with yellowish-brown scales; 
