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A Monograph of Culicidae. 
^. Head clothed with flat brown scales with violet reflec¬ 
tions and a pale creamy border around the eyes and at the sides ; 
chaetae dark ; clypeus, palpi and proboscis deep brown, palpi 
very small; antennae deep brown, basal segment brown, pilose. 
Thorax shiny deep brown with scattered brown and paler 
spindle-shaped scales ; prothoracic lobes covered with small flat 
creamy scales ; scutellum ochreous brown with flat dull scales; 
metanotum brown with a large area of pale hairs posteriorly, 
arising from black points; pleurae ochreous brown with flat 
white scales. 
Abdomen deep brown, traces of some pale scales at the bases 
of the apical segments; venter pale grey, the integument 
ochreous. 
Legs deep brown, coxae ochreous with white scales, under 
side of femora pale. 
Wings with short fork-cells, the first longer, but slightly 
narrower than the second, its base slightly nearer the base of 
the wing, its stem two-thirds the length of the cell; stem of the 
second as long as the cell; posterior cross-vein about two and a 
