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A Monograph of Culicidae. 
14. Axopheles Rossii. Giles. 
(Journ. Trop. Mi d. Oct. 1899 ; Hd.Bk. of Gnats, p. 149.) 
(Figs. 9 and 10, PI. III.) 
Thorax pale yellowish-brown, with greyish reflections, and 
with a darker median line and scattered pale scales and hairs. 
Abdomen dusky, with a dense covering of ochraceous hairs. 
Legs yellow, with brown scales and yellow bands, both apical 
and basal, to the tarsi. Wings with a distinct T-shaped black 
costal spot and three other black spots in the 9 • 
9 . Head blackish, with pale scales in front, and with a 
tuft of pale hairs projecting forwards, black scales at the top 
and sides; eyes black ; antennae brown, with pale hairs and 
pubescence; basal joint ochraceous-brown, with a few creamy 
scales ; proboscis dark brown, apex sometimes pale; palpi dark 
scaled, apically white, and with two other pale bands near the 
apices of the second and third joints ; clypeus pale brown. 
Thorax pale yellowish-brown to ochraceous-brown, with 
greyish reflections, with traces of a median line, covered with 
scattered pale scales and hairs; scutellum pale, sometimes dusky 
in the middle, with pale scales and brown bristles much as in 
si'perjpictus ; metanotum pale yellowish-brown to brown; pleurae 
with a dark line of spots above, pale below, with patches of 
pale scales. 
Abdomen dusky, densely clothed with golden brown or 
ochraceous hairs, which are especially thick at the apex, giving 
it an ochraceous appearance. 
Legs yellowish, with brown scales, and with pale apical and 
basal bands to some of the tarsi, except the last tarsus, which is 
always black. The tarsal scales are very dark, sometimes having 
a deep purplish-brown hue. Fore tarsi basally and apically banded 
yellow, except the last joint; metatarsus apically banded only ; 
in some specimens there may be seen a very narrow basal, as 
well as apical, banding to the hind legs. 
Wings yellowish, with the costa broken by four large patches 
of dark brown or black scales, and two or three smaller basal 
ones. The large middle spot has a small dark spot below in the 
centre, giving a T-shaped appearance to it. First sub-marginal 
cell a little longer and narrower than the second posterior cell, 
their bases nearly level with one another, that of the first sub- 
