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A Monograph of Culicidae. 
Abdomen covered with steel-blue, grey, green and ochraceous 
scales as follows: first segment brighter than the rest, pale 
green and pale blue w r ith a few golden scales, second, third and 
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Fig. 67. 
MegarMnus ferox, Wied. 
a, Wing of ?; b, cross-vein of ; c, male palpus ; 
d, thorax; az.-b. azure-blue; g.-b. golden-brown; 
p. purple ; b. and g. bronze and gold. 
fourth steel blue, with deep green and brown scales; fifth with 
a broad band of ochraceous scales at the base, a narrow row 
of the same colour at the apex, deep green, blue and brown 
between ; sixth and seventh metallic blue and purple, with a 
distinct bright ochraceous apical border; last segment brilliant 
deep blue at the base, bright yellowish at the apex ; the sides of 
the segments are also rather bright ochraceous to golden; venter 
golden-yellow; apex with many yellow hairs, but not forming- 
such a regular caudal tuft as is drawn in the Figure (PI. VIII.) ; 
at the base of the abdomen ventrally is a dense patch of white 
scales. 
Legs steel blue with coppery reflections ; coxae light chestnut- 
brown with white scales ; femora pale golden beneath, with a few 
peacock-blue scales dotted amongst the steel-blue ones; first and 
second tarsal joints of the mid legs white (rest absent) ; last two 
