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pleurae testaceous-brown, with deep purplish-brown patches, and 
some white scales. 
Abdomen steely in some lights, brownish in others, covered 
with deep brown scales (which appear dull purplish in some lights 
under the two-fifth power), each segment with a basal band of 
dull white scales, and a few short golden hairs on their posterior 
borders ; first segment ochraceous, with deep purplish reflections 
along the apical border and in the middle ; venter white scaled. 
Legs with the femora pale creamy ventraily from the base 
to nearly the apex, which is entirely black ; the white ventral 
scales have a pale violet tint in some lights ; tibiae brown, the 
pale knee spot involving their bases; apices of the tibiae also 
pale scaled in the hind legs; the metatarsus and first two tarsal 
joints are apically and basally yellow, the basal bands being the 
largest, the last joint unbanded, together with the jireceding, 
yellowish-brown in colour. 
Wings spotted; three yellow spots along the costal border, 
the rest of the costa being deep brown; wing ornamentation 
as follows : a small yellow spot on the costa near the apex, 
which passes on to the tip of the first longitudinal vein, then 
follow brown scales, which form with the first longitudinal a 
brown spot, another pale spot ending where the sub-costal joins 
the costa, which also extends on to the first long vein, then a 
long brown spot involving unequally the sub-costal and first long 
veins, then a small pale diagonal 
spot running across the three, the 
rest of them being dark scaled; 
remainder of the wing brown 
scaled, except the apex of the 
upper branch of the first sub- 
marginal cell, the greater part of the third long vein, the 
upper branch of the fifth, and a band extending from the second 
spot across the bases of the two fork-cells; first sub-marginal a 
little longer and the same width as the second posterior cell, their 
bases not quite level ; their stems nearly equal; stem of the first 
sub-marginal equal to half the length of the cell; posterior cross¬ 
vein about twice its own length distant from the mid cross-vein ; 
fringe brown, except between the two forks of the fifth long vein. 
Halteres ochraceous. 
Length. —5 to 6 mm. 
Time of capture. —Punjab, in March. 
Habitat. —Italy (Grassi) ; India, Punjab (Lindesay). 
Fig. 107. 
Wing of Culex mimeticus ($). (X. 9.) 
