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grey reflections ; pleurae pallid greyish-white somewhat pellucid 
with some pale creamy scales. 
Abdomen deep blackish-brown with broad basal white scaled 
bands which just extend on to the apices of the preceding 
segments and which have a few dark scales scattered over them ; 
the first segment pale brown with a few dark scales and fine 
silk-like pale hairs ; posterior border-bristles pale ; last segment 
mostly pale scaled ; venter with still broader pale basal bands 
and even white scales dotted over the narrow dark apices. 
Legs brown, pale at their base, coxae almost silvery-white ; a 
pale knee spot and a few paler scales on the femora : apex of 
tibiae pale and base of metatarsi in the hind legs, a trace in the 
mid, none in the fore ; narrow pale bands to some of the tarsal 
Fig. 150. 
Wing of Culex salsus. Theobald. 
joints, involving both sides of the joints most prominent on the 
hind legs ; ungues equal and simple. 
Wings with dense scales on the branches of the second and 
fourth veins and third and apices of the others, rather broader 
than in Culex (sen. st.); fork-cells moderately long ; the first sub¬ 
marginal longer and slightly narrower than the second posterior 
cell; its base very slightly nearer the apex of the wing than that 
of the second posterior cell, its stem a little less than half the 
length of the cell; stem of the second posterior slightly less than 
half the length of the cell; posterior cross-vein more than three 
times its own length distant from the mid. 
Length.-—& * 5 to 5 mm. 
. Palpi longer than the proboscis by nearly the whole of 
the apical segment; acuminate, last two segments of nearly equal 
length, the apical slightly the longer ; hair tufts scanty and 
short, dark ; a basal pale band to both the last segments ; the-, 
ante-penultimate with two broad pale bands; proboscis broadly 
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