Genus Culex . 
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second joint, faint pale bands at the verticils, pubescence pale, 
verticillate hairs dark brown; c-lypeus bright ferruginous 
brown. 
Thorax very dark purplish-brown, with a greyish sheen in 
some lights, covered with fairly close, scattered, golden-brown, 
curved, hair-like scales much brighter in front than behind, and 
some black bristles in three rows ; scutellum deep purplish-brown 
with testaceous patches and black bristles with golden hair-like 
scales; metanotum chestnut-brown; pleurae deep brown with 
patches of white scales. 
Abdomen densely covered with deep purplish-black scales, 
each segment with a narrow basal band of pale yellowish-white 
scales, which do not quite extend across the segments, also with 
Fig. 115. 
Culex taeniorhynchus, Wiedemann. 
a, Male genitalia ; b, female proboscis ; c, male proboscis; d, fore and 
hind ungues of male and female. 
pure white lateral spots; each segment bordered posteriorly 
with a row of golden hairs ; ventrally the abdomen is similarly 
coloured to the dorsum. 
Fore legs dark brown, lower surface of the femora yellowish, 
tibiae with a yellow apex and a few small yellow spots down one 
side, bases of first and second tarsal joints white, last two joints 
black; ungues equal, each with a tooth; mid legs with the 
femora black above, creamy coloured below, a pure white knee 
spot ; tibiae black, spotted with yellow scales, metatarsus basally 
white banded, also the first two tarsal joints, ungues toothed ; 
in the hind legs the metatarsus and first three tarsal joints are 
basally white-banded, the last joint pure white, otherwise like 
