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the mid legs; femora with black bristles, tibiae with pale bristles; 
hind ungues simple. 
Winars with brown scales, the lateral ones on the veins being 
long and thin; first sub-marginal cell longer and but slightly 
narrower than the second posterior cell, its stem about half the 
Fig. 116. 
Wing of Culex taeniorhynchus, 
Wied. ($). (X. 9.) 
Fig. 117. 
Wing scales of Culex taeniorhynchus. Wied. 
a, border of veins ; b, mid vein scales. 
length of the cell; posterior cross-vein about the same length as 
the mid cross-vein and situated rather less than its own length 
distant from it. 
Halteres ochraceous, but with a few dark scales at the top 
and numerous white scales on one side of the stem. 
Length .—5 to 5'8 mm. 
£ . Head with more creamy-yellow to brown scales in front 
than in the 9 > anc ^ the upright forked scales are yellow; an¬ 
tennae brown, with pale bands and bright silky-brown plumes ; 
palpi black, with four white bands, and with bright chestnut- 
brown tufts on the last two joints and on the top of the ante¬ 
penultimate joint, the last joint slightly shorter than the 
penultimate, the latter about half the length of the ante¬ 
penultimate joint, the white bands are basal; proboscis thin, with 
a very narrow pale band towards its basal third. 
Abdomen narrow, with yellowish basal bands to the first few 
segments, the rest white, and the last two or three with white 
lateral spots ; densely clothed laterally with golden-brown hairs. 
Legs as in the ; ungues of the fore and mid legs unequal, 
the larger one twice-toothed, the hind equal and simple. Male 
claspers with the basal joint brown, with long dark brown hairs, 
swollen and pale underneath, second joint small and swollen, 
testaceous, claspers small (Fig. 115). 
Length. —4- 8 to 5 mm. 
Habitat .—New Amsterdam, British Guiana (Dr. Rowland, 
September, 1899); St. Lucia (Dr. Gray) (25. 5. 1899); Florida 
(Howard); Honduras (Walker) ; Brazil (Wiedemann). Coquillett 
