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femora, remainder purplish-black, a pale spot at the apex of 
femora and tibiae, last tarsal joint deep ochraceous ; six central 
scutellar bristles. Ungues of the fore and mid legs of the £ 
unequal, the larger one toothed, the smaller simple, also the 
small hind ungues. 
9. Head covered with creamy scales in the middle, flat 
white ones at the sides, and numerous black and brown upright 
forked scales all over the crown ; antennae brown, with pale 
pubescence, dark brown verticils, and testaceous basal joint and 
base of the second joint; proboscis black, deep ochraceous at the 
apex ; palpi black, short. 
Thorax deep brown, covered with golden-brown curved scales 
and with three rows of black bristles, the middle one stopping at 
the middle of the mesonotum, the two lateral running back to 
the scutellum, and also black bristles at the sides ; metanotum 
brown ; pleurae with patches of dull white scales. 
Abdomen covered with deep dusky-brown scales, the base of 
each segment with a line of a few white scales, forming on the 
last three basal segments small lateral patches; on the venter 
the white basal bands are much more distinct, 
forming fairly broad bands; the posterior 
borders of the segments with deep golden- 
brown hairs ; the last segment densely hairy ; 
basal segment fuscous, with long brown hairs 
from its lateral surface and a small patch of 
golden ones from the central border. 
Legs with the bases pale grey, and with 
the ventral surfaces of the femora pale, the 
rest covered with deep purplish-black scales, 
except the last tarsal joint of the fore legs, 
which is of a brownish-ochraceous tinge ; knee 
spots pale, also a white spot at apex of the 
tibiae; ungues small. 
Wings with the veins covered with brown 
scales, the lateral ones being rather long and blunt; first sub¬ 
marginal cell longer and narrower than the second posterior cell. 
Halteres with the stem pale and the apical half fuscous. 
Length. —3*8 to 4 mm. 
£. Head covered with white scales, very distinct and flat 
at the sides, in the middle a few scattered black upright forked 
ones; eyes black and silvery; proboscis black; palpi dark 
brown, with purplish reflections near the end, with a small pale 
Fig. 216. 
Culex masculus. n. sp. 
a, Fore ungues of the 
cf ; b, hind ungues 
of cf ; e, abdominal 
segments. 
