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54. CuLEX MORSITANS. n. sp. 
(Fig. 79, PI. XX.) 
Thorax deep brown, with narrow curved bronzy-brown scales, 
with median and lateral indistinct lines of pale creamy scales. 
Abdomen dull dark brown, with fuscous scales and with basal 
creamy-yellow bands. Ungues of the 9 equal and simple. 
9 . Head deep brown, with narrow curved pale scales and 
black upright forked ones; antennae brown, the basal joint 
bright ferruginous, also the base of the second joint, narrowly 
pale banded, covered with pale pubescence and black verticillate 
hairs; palpi brown, with blackish scales, apex yellowish-white; 
clypeus brown; proboscis dark brown, pale near the base. 
Thorax deep brown, covered with scattered narrow curved 
bronzy-brown scales, with median and lateral rather indistinct 
lines of slightly thicker creamy scales, which are also present at 
the sides of the mesonotum; scutellum brown, with narrow 
curved creamy scales and dark brown border-bristles; meta- 
notuin pale clear chestnut-brown; pleurae brown, with a few 
creamy scales. 
Abdomen dusky brown, covered with fuscous scales and with 
basal creamy-yellow bands to the segments, their posterior borders 
edged with pale hairs; venter mostly pale yellow scaled, with 
fuscous patches on each side, about the middle of each segment. 
Legs dark brown; coxae, bases and ventral surfaces of the 
femoi a pallid, knee spots yellow, apices of the tibiae yellow ; base 
and apex of fore metatarsus and first tarsal narrowly banded 
pale yellowish, the bands thus involving both sides of the joints; 
in the hind legs the banding involves all the tarsal joints ; ungues 
equal and simple. 
Wings with the veins with long thin brown lateral scales and 
a brown fringe; both fork-cells long and about the same width, 
the first sub-marginal cell a little longer than the second posterior 
cell; base of the second posterior rather nearer the base of the wing 
than that of the first sub-marginal; stem of the sub-marginal 
about one-third of the length of the cell; stem of the posterior 
about as long as that of the former cell; posterior cross-vein 
about the same length as the mid cross-vein and rather more 
than its own length distant from it. Hal teres with a pale stem 
and fuscous knob. 
Length.— 7 mm. 
