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A Monograph of Culicidae. 
ungues of all three pairs of legs equal, simple, rather small and 
moderately curved. 
Wings with brown scales, the median ones rather loose and 
expanded, the lateral long ones rather thick (Fig. 132, b); first 
sub-marginal cell considerably longer and narrower than the second 
posterior cell, its base nearer the base of the wing than that of 
Fig. 133. 
Wing of Culex hirsutipalpis (9). 
a, Very prominent wing folds. (X. 18.) 
the second posterior cell; its stem short, about one-third the 
length of the cell; shorter than the stem of the second posterior 
cell; posterior cross-vein about its own length distant from the 
mid cross-vein ; halteres ochraceous. 
Length .—5 mm. 
£ . Head brown, with narrow grey curved scales on the 
occiput and upright brown ones, sides of the head with flat 
creamy scales and some lateral dark ones ; eyes bordered with 
narrow curved grey scales ; proboscis dark brown, much expanded 
apically, with a narrow, clear-yellow scaled median band, hirsute 
at the apex ; palpi dark brown, longer than the proboscis by the 
last two joints, apical joint with a narrow yellow apical band and 
a very broad basal one, as long as the penultimate joint, which is 
also yellow at the base, the antepenultimate joint has also a 
broad pale band and a narrow one towards its base, the last two 
joints and the apex of the antepenultimate with long, dense, thick 
black hairs ; antennae brown, with dull grey bands and brown 
plumes, the last two joints brown, densely but finely hirsute 
(Fig. 134, b). 
Thorax brown, covered with pale, curved, ochraceous scales 
on the anterior two-thirds, the remainder of the mesonotum 
being darker ; dense, short, black bristles over the roots of the 
wings ; scutellum brown, with narrow pale curved scales, seven 
black bristles to the median lobe and about seven large ones to 
each of the lateral lobes ; pleurae dull pale brown, with grey 
