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A Monograph of Culicidae. 
£ . Head brown, with scattered curved creamy scales over 
the crown, white flat scales at the sides and also white scales 
forming a narrow border to the eyes, a few black upright forked 
scales dotted over the crown; eyes purplish-black ; palpi much 
longer than the proboscis, yellowish-brown towards the base, 
dark brow T n towards the apex, a small paler yellow band towards 
the base, hairs dense, silky-brown; proboscis yellowish-brown, 
darker towards the base and the tip. 
Thorax bright chestnut-brown, with numerous small curved 
golden-brown scales dotted about, two short single rows of 
bristles running back to the scutellum from about halfway 
across the mesonotum, the last but one being composed of 
Fig. 213. 
Culex virgultus. n. sp. 
Male palpus and 
proboscis. 
double bristles; the scutellum is pale brown, paler still laterally, 
covered with pale golden scales ; eight long bright brown bristles 
arising from the central lobe, several from the lateral lobes; 
metanotum very pale ochraceous-brown ; pleurae very pale brown 
and grey. A tuft of bristles sticks out in front of the sternum , 
but I am not sure if they are of much specific value, as they 
cannot always be seen; their appearance is very marked, 
however, in the two males examined. 
Abdomen narrow, covered with deep, dusky purplish-brown 
scales, a broad band of white scales at the base of each segment, 
which on the last few segments pass down laterally and along 
the lateral borders ; apical borders of the segments with golden- 
brown hairs; there is apparently a pale bare shiny band at the 
base of each segment; both laterally and ventrally the abdomen 
is clothed with long dense golden hairs. 
