Genus Culex. 133 
ochraceous, except the apex, which is black; eyes deep purplish- 
black, with a few silvery markings. 
Thorax dark brown, covered with golden-brown curved 
scales, with three lines of black bristles, the median one ending 
in front of a bare space before the scutellum, the lateral ones 
reaching the scutellum ; in some specimens dark thoracic stripes 
show through the scales in front ; scutellum with pale golden 
curved scales and golden-brown bristles ; pleurae chestnut-brown, 
with a few small patches of pale creamy scales; metanotum pale 
chestnut-brown. 
Abdomen covered with dusky-black scales, the bases of the 
segments with a band of flaxen-yellow scales; the bands are 
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Fig. 221. 
Culex pijnens ( 9 ). 
(Showing slight variations of cross-veins.) 
(X. 9.) 
broadest, in the middle on the front segments, and broaden out 
laterally, and there is a pale patch of scales on each side at the 
