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Abdomen blackish-brown, with narrow, pale basal bands of 
yellowish-white scales which spread out more or less laterally, 
forming in some specimens almost a pale yellow lateral irregular 
line ; the apical segments have pale scales 
on their apical borders, which sometimes 
form almost distinct apical bands : posterior 
borders of the segments with long golden 
bristles ; venter white scaled. 
Legs with the coxae yellowish-white : 
femora yellowish-white at the base, with 
blackish and ochraceous scales, chiefly the 
latter below, mottled with both above, 
cpiite black near the apex, knee spot yellow ; 
tibiae covered with black and pale creamy 
scales scattered indiscriminatelv, the dark 
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scales especially collected at the apex : 
metatarsi similarly coloured, fore and mid 
metatarsi with small pale basal bands, the 
hind ones with broader basal bands ; hind 
metatarsi about two-thirds the length of 
the tibiae; first two of the fore tarsal 
joints basally white banded, last two almost 
black; in the mid legs the first three are 
basally banded, but the third only slightly ; in the hind legs the 
basal banding is paler and broader, all four joints being broadly 
banded, but the last sometimes only faintly so; ungues of the 
fore (Fig. 141, I) and mid legs equal and toothed, those of the 
hind legs simple (II). 
AVino;s with veins covered with brown scales with a few 
paler ones along the costa; first sub-marginal cell a little longer 
ft 
Fig. 141. 
I. Ungues of cf and ? Culex 
cantans. II. Hind ungues 
of the 9 Culex annulipes. 
(cf ungues after Ficalbi.) 
Fig. 141 a. 
Culex canta7is, Meigen (9). (X. 9.) 
and narrower than the second posterior cell, its base slightly 
nearer the apex of the wing than the base of the second 
posterior, its stem about half the length of the cell ; stem of the 
second posterior cell not quite as long as the cell ; supernumerary 
