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broader in the male. Legs deep brown with narrow pale banding 
to some extent involving both sides of the segments. 
9. Head brown with narrow-curved pale creamy scales 
and flat creamy scales at the sides ; dark upright forked scales 
behind, deep bright ochreous ones in front; clypeus brown : 
proboscis jet black with a rather broad median creamy band; 
palpi black scaled with a few creamy scales at the tip. 
Thorax hlack clothed with narrow-curved pale dull golden 
and some brown scales, the brown forming two large patches in 
front; chaetae dark brown, small short ones in front of the 
base of the wings • scutellum brown with narrow-curved pale 
scales ; with seven long, dark posterior border-bristles and some 
small golden ones ; metanotum deep brown ; pleurae paler brown 
with some patches of flat white scales. 
Abdomen black scaled; the first segment all black, with 
Tig. 144. 
Wing- of Culicelsa accraensis. $. n. sp. (Type.) 
long dense hairs dark at the base, golden at the tips ; other 
segments with narrow white basal bands ; penultimate segment 
with an apical creamy-white border, border-bristles brown and 
golden ; there are also basal lateral pale patches ; venter broadly 
white scaled at the bases of the segments, dark apically. 
Legs deep brown, under side and apices of the femora creamy ; 
under side of the rest of the legs with ochreous reflections, traces 
of narrow yellowish pale banding to the fore and mid feet, except 
on the last segment, the banding more pronounced on the hind ; 
apices of femora and tibiae spinose, spines dark ; ungues equal 
and simple. 
Wings with rather broad linear lateral vein scales; first 
fork-cell longer and slightly narrower than the second, their 
bases about level; stem of the former rather more than one- 
third the length of the cell, that of the latter not quite half the 
