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A Monograph of Culicidae. 
110. Culex viridiventer. Giles. 
(Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. p. 609, no. 4, vol. xiii. (1901) ) 
(Fig. 116, PI. XXIX.) 
Thorax dark brown, with short and narrow curved deep 
golden-brown to bronzy scales, paler in front of the scutellum. 
Abdomen dusky-black, with basal white bands on the second and 
third segments, not always complete ; on the fourth to sixth the 
bands are very distinct, and swell out in the middle; apical seg¬ 
ment white. Legs black ; coxae and bases of the femora greyish- 
white ; knee spots very clear behind; ungues of the 9 equal 
and simple; of the $ unequal in the fore and mid legs, the 
larger one uniserrated; hind ungues equal, simple, very small. 
9 • Head brown, with narrow, pale, curved scales over the 
crown and numerous black upright forked ones, a narrow border 
of pale curved scales round the eyes and flat dull while scales on 
each side; eyes deep purplish-black ; antennae dark brown, with 
pale pubescence and black hairs; basal joint and base of the 
second joint bright testaceous; palpi short, black scaled ; pro¬ 
boscis black. 
Thorax dark brown, with short narrow curved deep golden- 
brown to bronzy scales and a few black bristles over the roots of 
the wings, with a single row of bristles 
on each side of the notum of the meso- 
thorax, and others round the bare space in 
front of the scutellum, where the scales are 
paler ; scutellum paler than the mesonotum, 
brown, with a grey sheen in certain lights, 
yellowish at the sides, scales narrow curved 
and pale, almost grey; mid lobe with six 
dark brown bristles ; metanotum chestnut- 
brown ; pleurae brown, with a few pale 
hairs. 
Abdomen steely-black, covered with 
dusky-black scales and with basal white 
bands, not always complete, on the second 
and third segments ; on the fourth to sixth, 
inclusive, the basal bands are distinct and 
swell out in the middle; apical segment 
white; first segment steely and ochraceous, with two patches of 
dark brown scales ; posterior borders of the segments with short 
Fig. 218. 
a, Wing scales, and b, 
abdomen of Culex viri- 
diventer, Giles ( ? ). 
