228 A Monograph of Culicidae. 
notuin bright umber-brown ; pleurae chestnut-brown, with patches 
of white scales. 
Abdomen steely-black, clothed with dusky-black scales, 
the segments edged with pale golden bristles; first segment 
ochraceous, with dusky purplish-brown scales, the second segment 
with a median basal patch of cream-coloured scales, the third to 
fifth with basal crescentic bands of creamy scales, the sixth with 
just a few pale basal scales, remaining segments unbanded; the 
abdomen in some specimens has no basal banding, which may, 
however, have been denuded, although I do not fancy so; venter 
thickly clothed with creamy-yellow scales. 
Legs with the coxae pale brown, with patches of white scales; 
femora with silvery-white scales below, black above; knee spot 
small; tibiae black, with a metallic bronzy lustre and long black 
bristles ; metatarsi and tarsi deep bronzy-black ; ungues all equal, 
and with a single tooth to each. 
Wings with brown scales, the lateral ones being very long 
and slender; costa and first long vein very dark; first sub- 
Fig. 263. Fig. 264. 
Wing of Aedesfuscus ( $). Aedesfuscus, O.-Sacken (d). 
(X. 9.) (X. 9.) 
marginal cell longer and narrower than the second posterior cell, 
its base very little nearer the apex of the wing than that of the 
latter, its stem equal to rather more than half the length of the 
cell, slightly shorter than the stem of the second posterior cell, 
which is nearly as long as the cell itself; posterior cross-vein 
not quite twice its own length distant from the mid cross-vein. 
Halteres with a dull white stem and fuscous knob. 
Length. —3*5 to 4*5 mm. 
£ . Head black, with flat creamy scales on the occiput, a 
patch of purplish-black ones on each side of the occiput, then 
creamy ones, then a line of deep purplish-black ones, and then 
almost white ones at the sides, a few black upright forked scales 
on the nape ; antennae banded ; basal joint large, dark brown; 
second joint swollen, deep brown (Fig. 262, d) ; plumes dark 
chestnut-brown; proboscis dark brown to black; palpi minute, 
dark brown. Ungues of the fore and mid legs unequal, the 
larger one uniserrated; in the hind legs equal, and both toothed. 
Length .—3 to 4*5 mm. 
