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A Monograph of CuUcidae. 
ungues of the $ rather long, equal and simple; of the $ 
unequal in the fore and mid legs, equal in the hind. Wings 
thickly scaled along the veins and with lateral long scales, dark 
along the costal border. 
Fig. 180. 
Culex metallicus. n. sp. 
a, Thorax ; a 1 and a 2 , scales ; b, male palpus; c, female ungues ; d, apex of 
antennae; e, wing fringe; f, male genitalia; g, wing scales; li, <f 
ungues ; i, another form of wing scales. 
9 . Head dark brown, with a few scattered narrow pale 
grey curved scales and numerous long black upright-forked ones 
over the whole surface; eyes black and coppery; a few golden- 
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