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bauds which become swollen in the middle. Legs dark brown; 
all the joints apically and basally banded. Wings with the 
costa yellow, with three long black spots; veins also marked 
with black and yellow-scaled areas. 
9 • Head brown, covered with golden-brown forked upright 
scales on the front and occiput, then black ones on each side, and 
then again flat creamy scales, giving the sides of the head a pale 
appearance; beneath the mass of upright scales on the crown 
are a few thin curved scales of a pale golden-yellow ; projecting 
in front are golden-yellow hairs; eyes coppery-red, on their 
border a narrow pale band of scales ; antennae dusky yellowish- 
brown, basal joint yellowish, but dusky on one side, base of 
second joint also yellowish ; palpi yellowish, black at the base, 
with a broad black dorsal band before the apex and with black 
scales dotted over the yellow ones, excep't at the apex, which is 
pure yellow; proboscis yellow, black scaled at the base and with 
a black band at the apex, extreme tip pale ; clypeus dark brown. 
Thorax dusky yellow at the sides, dark brown on the dorsum, 
covered with short curved pale-golden scales, arranged so as to 
leave the brown of the dorsum showing as a darker broad line in 
front, which widens out behind into a broad mass, and on each 
side in front as a brown oblong spot; pleurae yellow, with 
blackish markings and two patches of creamy scales; scutellum 
densely covered with pale curved scales; metanotum dark 
chestnut-brown. 
Abdominal segments covered with deep blackish-brown 
scales, the apical borders having a band of pale scales, which 
become swollen in the middle, forming a large pale 
mass in the centre of each segment of the form 
shown in Fig. 112; venter pale, the first segments 
with a black Y-shaped mark, the apical ones with 
a dark central line; posterior borders of the seg¬ 
ments clothed with golden hairs. 
Legs dark brown, all the joints pale yellowish, 
that is banded at each end, including the femora. 
Wings spotted, the costa yellow, with three long 
black spots which pass on to the first long vein, 
which is mostly black-scaled save the apex and a 
spot under the basal costal spot; second long vein 
black-scaled, except a pale spot on the upper branch of its fork ; 
third long vein pale, with black scales at the base and close to 
the apex; fourth black-scaled, with two pale-scaled spots on 
Fig. 112. 
Culex Rigotii, 
Bellardi. 
Abdominal 
banding. 
