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A Monograph of Culicidae. 
101. Culex Salisburiensis. 
n. sp. 
Fig. 204. 
Female palpus of 
Culex Salisburien- 
sis. n. sp. 
Thorax brown, with golden-brown curved scales showing 
more or less linear ornamentation, a dull, bare, median line and 
lateral ones at the back, expanding in the middle of the thorax. 
Abdomen dark brown, with narrow, apical, 
yellowish bands expanded laterally so as to form 
yellow lateral spots. Legs brown, unbanded ; 
coxae pale, femora slightly mottled, tibiae and 
tarsi almost black ; knee spot indistinct; ungues 
of the 9 equal and simple; fork-cells of the 
wings rather short. 
9 . Head black, with narrow curved pale 
golden scales and short black upright forked 
ones, and flat creamy ones at the sides; a dis¬ 
tinct pale border round the eyes; antennae brown, basal joint 
bright testaceous on one side, dark on the other, second joint 
rather swollen, ferruginous, except at the apex; palpi short, 
black scaled, the apical joint thick, quadrangular; proboscis 
black scaled; eyes black, with a silvery lustre. 
Thorax dark brown, with narrow curved golden-brown 
scales, appearing almost yellow in some lights; the denuded 
surface shows longitudinal ornamentation, with a median bare 
dark line and a dark bare line on each side behind swelling 
into a larger bare patch about the middle of the mesonotum ; 
three longitudinal rows of black bristles; scutellum brown, with 
pale golden narrow curved scales and with seven median border 
bristles; metanotum deep chestnut-brown, with a dark spot on 
each side; pleurae brown, with two large transverse lines of 
creamy scales. 
Abdomen deep brown, each segment with a narrow apical 
border of yellow scales; first abdominal segment dusky, with 
two small patches of dark scales; posterior border-bristles 
rather pallid. 
Legs dark brown; coxae pale ochraceous, femora ochraceous, 
with brown scales, which give them a mottled appearance, knee 
spot very faint; hind metatarsus about as long as the hind 
tibia ; ungues equal and simple. 
Wings with brown scales; first sub-marginal cell longer and 
narrower than the second posterior cell, its base if anything 
nearer the apex of the wing than that of the latter; its stem 
