Appendix . 333 
9 . Head brown, clothed with hoary, narrow curved scales 
and numerous ochraceous upright forked ones; eyes black ; 
clypeus, palpi and proboscis deep brown; antennae brown, basal 
joint paler. 
a 
a, Wing of 9 ; b, fore ungues of . 
Thorax shiny black, covered with thin hair-like curved hoary 
scales and showing traces of two dark parallel bands on the 
denuded surface ; scutellum with narrow curved hoary scales ; 
metanotum testaceous and ochraceous; pleurae dark brown 
above, ochraceous below. 
Fig. 312. 
Culex pruinosus. 
Male and female abdominal 
ornamentation. 
Abdomen dark brown, almost black, the fifth to eighth 
segments with basal white lateral patches which are most pro¬ 
nounced on the sixth, seventh and eighth segments; the abdomen 
shows violet reflections ; border-bristles pale. 
