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Thorax pale brown, ochraceors in 
front of the scutellum ; abdomen 
brownish blaek with white inci¬ 
sions... pusillus. Macqnart. 
AAA. Abdomen apically pale banded. 
Thorax dusky, with grey scales 
and four dark lines . fusccinus. Wiedemann. 
AAAA. Abdomen unbanded, yellow. 
Thorax yellowish-brown. pallens. Coquillett. 
Thorax grey ... bicolor. Meigen. 
Thorax reddish .. lutescens. Fabricius. 
106. CULEX SCHOLASTICUS. 11. Sp. 
Thorax chestnut-brown, with small dark brown curved scales 
and traces of two paler longitudinal lines; abdomen covered 
with dusky scales, each segment with a lateral dull white 
basal triangular spot. Legs unbanded, covered with deep 
purplish-black scales with sometimes bronzy reflections, coxae 
pallid, femora pale beneath, ungues of the 9 small, equal, 
simple; of the unequal in fore and mid legs, equal and simple 
in hind; fore and mid uniserrated. 
9 . Head with greyish-brown curved scales and black 
upright forked ones, with a border of pure silky-white ones 
around the eyes and with a few large black bristles projecting in 
front, flat white scales at the sides; palpi black, with pale 
pubescence and a few bristles near the base, paler in some 
lights ; proboscis deep violet-black, apex paler; antennae brown, 
basal joint bright testaceous on one side, dark brown on the 
other, base of the second joint also testaceous; clypeus black ; 
eyes purple and silvery. 
Thorax brown, with small dark bronzy-brown curved scales 
and black bristles; when viewed in certain lights with a hand- 
lens it has a chestnut-brown appearance and two slightly pallid 
longitudinal lines; w r hen denuded it is bright testaceous, with 
an indistinct median and two lateral longitudinal lines ; scutellum 
pale silvery-brown, or pale ochraceous, with seven central bristles 
and eight or nine on each lateral lobe, and with dark scales ; 
metanotum chestnut-brown in some lights, purplish-brown to 
pale ochreous brown in others ; pleurae pale brown to silvery- 
grey, with a few white scales and a few small black hairs. 
