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which extend some way each side on to the occiput; there are also 
numerous small black upright forked scales on the back of the 
mid area down to the nape; antennae brown, with grey bands 
and dark brown to almost black plumes ; proboscis black, testa¬ 
ceous at the apex ; palpi longer than the proboscis by nearly the 
whole of the last two joints, there are traces of a pale band near 
the base of the antepenultimate joint, the penultimate joint a 
little longer than the apical joint, minutely testaceous at the 
base, apical joint acuminate; the last two joints with stiff 
black hairs, and the apex of the antepenultimate with two thick 
bristles. 
Fig. 304. 
Culex nigripalpus. n. sp. 
a, Head ; b, wing of ? and enlarged scales ; c, cf palpus. 
Thorax deep clear chestnut brown, with very small narrow 
curved dull fawn-coloured scales and with black bristles, especially 
long over the roots of the wings; scutellum pale ochraceous to 
greyish-brown with small curved pale dull brown scales and long 
brown border-bristles, six in number to the mid lobe; metanotum 
brown ; pleurae pale brown. 
Abdomen covered with deep brown scales dorsally, with violet 
reflections, venter pale, covered with grey scales ; on the last 
segment are some grey scales also dorsal; genitalia ochraceous ; 
border-bristles rather pale. 
Legs dark brown, the femora greyish beneath ; fore ungues 
unequal, rather straight, the larger one uniserrated, the smaller 
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