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A Monograph of Culicidae. 
Abdomen black, covered with deep fuscous scales, the bases 
of the segments being clothed with a band of white scales which 
spread out laterally a little on the posterior segments, and with a 
fringe of pale golden bristles on their posterior borders; venter 
black, with scattered pale scales, which form more or less of a 
line down the centre. 
Legs deep brown to black, with pale reflections in some 
lights, especially beneath the femora, coxae black, hind meta¬ 
tarsus a little shorter than the tibia; fore and mid ungues 
equal, uniserrated. 
Wings with the veins clothed with brown scales, mostly long 
lateral ones on the major portion of the veins; first sub-marginal 
cell a little longer and considerably narrower than the second 
Fig. 194. 
Culex nigripes, Zett. 
a, Wing of 9 (X. 9.); b, abdomen; c, 9 ungues. 
posterior cell, both fork-cells short, stem of the first sub¬ 
marginal not quite as long as the cell, about as long as that of 
the second posterior cell, which is considerably longer than its 
fork; posterior cross-vein equal to the mid cross-vein, about its 
own length distant from it, sometimes rather less ; the mid longer 
than the supernumerary cross-vein. Halteres with pale stem 
and slightly fuscous knob. 
Length .—4 • 5 to 6 mm. 
$. Resembles the 9 , but the abdomen is entirely black, 
there being no white basal bands; palpi, &c., black. 
Length. —4*5 to 6 mm. 
Habitat. —Lapland, Greenland, and the Arctic Circle gener¬ 
ally, and Kashmir, India (Dr. Neve) (21. 8. 1899); Virgin’s Bay, 
