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scutellum and over the roots of the wings; there are also three 
rows of black bristles and numerous long black ones over the 
roots of the wings and smaller ones laterally ; the median line of 
the mesothorax is rather darker than the rest, and there are 
also traces of two bare lateral lines, often indistinct ; the lateral 
lines of bristles form two tufts just before the scutellum ; scutellum 
brown, with narrow curved pale scales and border-bristles almost 
black; metanotum deep brown; pleurae brown, with cinereous 
reflections and white scales. 
Abdomen ochraceous, covered with dusky-black scales, each 
segment with a basal median semicircular patch of yellow scales, 
which in some segments .spread out and form narrow basal 
Fig. 132. 
Culex hirsutipalpis. n. sp. 
a, Abdominal ornamentation ; b, wing’ scales ; 
c, fore and hind ungues of 9 . * 
bands ; each segment has also a basal lateral white spot; posterior 
borders of the segments with golden-brown bristles, short in the 
middle, long at the sides; first abdominal segment ochraceous, 
with two patches of black scales and long hairs. 
Legs with coxae brown and ochraceous, with patches of white 
scales | femora brown, pale beneath, apex white scaled, bristly ; 
tibiae black, with a line of white scales beneath, apex a little 
dilated and pale scaled ; hind tibiae about the same length as 
the hind metatarsi; metatarsi black, a narrow pale basal ring 
and a more distinct apical one; first and second tarsi of the fore 
legs apically and basally banded, third basally banded, fourth 
unbanded, with an ochraceous tinge ; mid tarsi similar to the 
fore tarsi ; hind tarsi all more or less apically and basally banded ; 
