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with basal white or creamy-yellow bands, which are usually 
expanded laterally and narrowed in the middle, sometimes 
looking only like white lateral spots ; venter white scaled, with 
three lateral dark spots. Legs black, unbanded ; bases of the 
femora pale yellowish-white. Ungues of the 9 all equal, thick, 
uniserrated; of the £ with the fore and mid ones unequal, the 
hind equal, all uniserrated. 
9 . Head dark brown, with dense, narrow curved scales all 
over it of a golden ochraceous hue, and with upright darker 
ochraceous ones, flat pale ochraceous scales at the sides, with a 
a b 
Fig. 189. 
C. nemorosus, Meigen S= Culex provoccins, Walker. 
a, Cross-veins ; b, cross-veins of C. consobrinus; c, head of $ ; 
d, abdominal ornamentation; e, ? palpus; f, $ ungues. 
pale border round the eyes; antennae dark brown, basal joint 
almost black, with white scales, base of the second joint bright 
ferruginous; palpi, proboscis and clypeus deep shiny black, the 
former densely scaled; the proboscis markedly curved upwards ; 
the palpi are quite large and have a few very long distinct black 
bristles; eyes black, with a silvery lustre. 
Thorax deep purplish-black, densely clothed with narrow 
golden and golden-brown scales, those in the middle of the 
mesonotum thin, deep golden-brown, those at the sides slightly 
paler and broader, forming a narrow line on each side extending 
down to the scutellum, the lateral ones on the posterior third of 
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