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Thorax blackish, with a faint median line, covered with 
scattered golden narrow curved scales; scutellum dark brown, 
slightly testaceous at the base and towards the sides, scales 
Fig. 265. 
Aedes cinereus, Meigen. 
Head of 9 : b, seutellar ornamentation, and e', enlarged scale 
paler than on the mesonotum, curved and thin; metathorax 
blackish-brown ; pleurae very dark brown, almost black, with a 
few white scales. 
Abdomen black, covered with black scales and a few dull 
greyish lateral ones, the last segment with white scales on each 
side at the base : genitalia steely bl^ck, hairy, hairs brown. 
Legs deep testaceous brown, covered with 
deep blackish-brown scales, with a rather 
bronzy reflection, the joints being slightly 
testaceous ; fore ungues unequal, the larger 
one with a single tooth, the hind nearly 
straight and equal, simple. 
Wings with the veins clothed with brown 
scales ; the first sub-marginal cell longer and 
narrower than the second posterior cell, its Aedes cinereus. Meigen. 
stem not quite so long as the fork, its base a fore and mid 
little (if at all) nearer the apex of the wing 
than the base of the second posterior cell, stem of the second 
posterior cell not quite so long as the fork, about the same length 
as the stem of the first sub-marginal ; posterior cross-vein twice 
its own length distant from the mid cross-vein, sloping a little 
towards the base of the wing. 
Length.—6 mm. 
9 • Head covered with flat dusky black and dusky ochraceous 
scales on the occiput, with ochraceous narrow curved scales 
behind, and a few dark upright forked ones, flat ochraceous 
scales at the sides, and an indistinct pale border to the eyes ; 
eyes purple and silver ; antennae almost black, basal joint dark 
on the inside, testaceous on the outside, base of the second joint 
Fig. 266. 
