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A Monograph of Culicidae. 
1. Sabethes eemipes. Wiedemann. 
(Auss. Zweifliig. Ins. i. p. 573 (1828), Wiedemann; Novara. Reise. Dipt, 
p. 31 (1868), Schiner; Hist. Nat. Dipt. i. 37, 18 (1831), Macquart.) 
(Fig. 43, PI. XI.) 
Thorax black, with flat purple and blue scales; abdomen 
covered with deep blue scales, purple and coppery at the apex, 
silvery spots laterally, yellow ventrally. Legs steel-blue or 
purple, the mid legs with a dense mass of long scales forming a 
kind of paddle on the tibia and metatarsus. 
Wings with rather large flat brown scales, violet along the 
costa. 
A . Head clothed with small flat steel-blue scales: eves 
coppery ; proboscis short, rather 
Fig. 70. 
Sabethe remipts , Wied. 
a, Antenna of the cT ; h, proboscis and 
palpi of c? ; c, wing scales; d, mid 
leg; e, enlarged scales of paddle ; 
f, base of wing ; g, apex of wing. 
Abdomen narrow, covered 
become purple and coppery at 
thick black, covered with small 
scales, with purple reflections, 
rather brassy beneath, swollen 
at the top; palpi (Fig. 70, b) 
very short, apparently 3-jointed, 
the basal joint large but short, 
the apical one very small dark- 
brown, with purple reflections ; 
antennae brown, with mauve 
reflections, long and nume¬ 
rous densely pilose verticillate 
hairs ; basal joint round and 
black, nude, second joint small, 
ferruginous, 14-jointed, the 
joints increasing in length api- 
cally (a). 
Thorax black, clothed with 
small purple and blue flat scales ; 
scutellum dark in the middle, 
with ferruginous borders and 
azure-blue flat scales ; over the 
root of the wings is a tuft of 
black bristles, and in front a 
tuft of dark scales ; metanotum 
deep brown ; pleurae dark brown 
with white scales, 
with flat blue scales, which 
the apex ; venter yellowish; 
