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taceous, the next two joints brown, the remainder blackish, wnth 
pale pubescence ; palpi testaceous, densely scaled with black and 
ochraceous scales, and with long black bristles and ochraceous 
scales only at the apex; proboscis thickly clothed with black 
and pale ochraceous scales, those at the apex being mostly black 
and with small black bristles ; clypeus brown. 
Thorax brown, darker at the sides, with traces of longitudinal 
ornamentation in the form of two median parallel lines pale 
outside and dark inside, and a thin median dark line, the whole 
covered with pale golden curved scales, which become rather 
broader and paler at the sides and paler in front of the scutellum ; 
three rows of black bristles on the mesonotum and a tuft of the 
same over the roots of the wings; scutellum broad, w ith curved 
silvery scales, the border with long blctch bristles and shorter golden- 
brown ones; metanotum chestnut-brown; pleurae testaceous, 
with numerous white scales. 
Abdomen covered with deep browmish-black scales, with a 
basal band of yellowish-white scales to each segment, and with a 
row of pale- golden bristles on 
their posterior borders; the first 
segment ochraceous brown, with 
a purplish apical border, which 
extends across the middle of the 
segment, on the centre of the 
apical border is a small tuft of 
creamy scales, the w-hole densely 
hairy; venter covered with pale 
creamy scales and with five large, 
lateral, basal patches of ochra¬ 
ceous scales. 
Legs w r ith the coxae testa¬ 
ceous, with a large tuft of w'hite 
and black scales and rather long 
bristles; femora covered with 
black scales above wfith a few 
white ones, white below, and with 
a yellow- knee spot; tibiae simi¬ 
larly coloured, the apicesyellowush- 
white, metatarsi black, the bases 
and apices with yellowish-w-hite scales, hind metatarsi not nearly 
as long as the hind tibiae ; first fore tarsal joint pale at each 
end, the other three only at the base; mid tarsi the same, but 
a 
A. B. 
rig. 109. 
First and second abdominal segments of 
Culex annulatus (A) and Culex Ficalbii 
(B); 1, foi-e and mid ungues of Culex 
Ficalbii, 2, of Culex annulatus. 
