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pale bands and very dense fuscous plume-hairs; proboscis deep 
brown. 
Thorax deep rich brown with scattered narrow-curved pale 
golden scales, brown and golden-brown chaetae; scutellum pale 
brown with narrow-curved pale scales ; pleurae deep brown with 
Fig. 141. 
Wing of Culicada fuscopcilpalis. <5 • n. sp. 
flat loosely applied creamy and dull white scales ; metanotum 
brown. 
Abdomen deep brown with black scales and basal bands of 
creamy scales, long golden-brown lateral hairs; venter pale 
ochreous with narrow black apical bands. 
Legs deep brown, paler at the base and on the under side of 
the femora, a yellow spot at the 
apex of the hind tibiae; hind 
tibiae with pale chaetae; fore 
and mid ungues unequal, both 
uniserrate, hind equal and uni- 
serrate. 
Wings with short fork-cells, 
the first longer and narrower 
than the second, its stem nearly 
as long as the cell, its base level 
with that of the second; stem 
of the second longer than the 
cell; posterior cross-vein about 
its own length distant from the 
mid, sloping towards the apex 
of wing • the third vein carried 
as a very distinct pseudo-vein to the base of the wing, and 
a very distinct pseudo-vein between the fifth and sixth; the 
marginal cell very long and swollen in the middle. 
The male genitalia with a broadly expanding clasper ending 
Culicada fuscopcilpalis. n. sp. 
c5 clasper. 
