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penultimate moderately long, antepenultimate a little longer 
than the penultimate, second about as long as the penultimate, 
rather enlarged : when denuded, testaceous; covered with 
ochraeeous and brown scales, allowing the testaceous ground 
colour to show through; apex with very dark brown scales, all 
the joints with dark bristles. 
Thorax deep blackish-brown, with broad lines of narrow 
curved very pale golden-grey scales and four broad lines of 
similar bronzy-black scales, with brown bristles which are more 
or less golden over the roots of the wings, a bare space in front 
of the scutellum ; scutellum deep brown, with pale golden-grey, 
narrow curved scales, rather dense on the mid lobe, with 
numerous rich golden-brown border-bristles; metanotum deep 
bright brown; pleurae deep brown, densely covered with flat 
greyish-white scales. 
Abdomen deep brown, the segments mostly covered with pale 
ochraeeous and grey scales, with some dark ones on the middle of 
Culex vittiger, Skuse. 
a, Apex of 9 wing ; b, 9 palpus. 
the anterior segments, giving a banded appearance; there are 
also a few white lateral ones, basal on some, median on other 
segments; venter with pale ochraeeous scales, with black scaled 
apical borders, the black scales appearing as black apical patches at 
the sides when viewed dorsally ; posterior border-bristles short. 
Legs brown, ochraeeous at the base, and the metatarsi and 
tarsi basally pale banded, the fore and mid metatarsi with only 
narrow apical black bands, the tarsi small and with narrow basal 
pale bands, the pale bands decreasing in size from the first to the 
last tarsal joint; hind legs with the banding more distinct; all 
the joints more or less bristly ; fore, mid and hind ungues equal, 
large, uniserrated. 
Wings with typical deep yellowish-brown Culex scales, the 
scales on the base of the veins ochraeeous and brown ; fork-cells 
very short ; first sub-marginal cell longer and about half the 
