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A Monograph of Culicidae. 
Thorax deep clear brown, with narrow golden hair-like curved 
scales, rather paler in front of the scutellum. and with numerous 
black curved bristles ; scutellum clear brown, with narrow pale 
curved scales, the border-bristles of the mid lobe in two rows, 
the outer large, irregularly disposed (apparently nine in number), 
and an inner row of much smaller ones ; metanotum brown ; 
pleurae brown, with darker patches and spots of flat white scales, 
a creamy scaled patch above. 
Abdomen steely-black and ochra'ceous brown when denuded, 
covered with fuscous brown scales, each segment with a white 
basal band, the second to the fifth with a few ochraceous yellow 
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scales on the apical borders, the last two segments with the 
apical ochraceous bands wide and very prominent ; posterior 
border-bristles pallid brown; venter jiallid at the base, mostly 
white and ochraceous, with narrow black apical bands : there are 
also long white lateral basal spots extending nearly along each 
segment. 
Legs ochraceous with brown scales, which show almost vellow 
reflections; femora dull yellowish at the base ; first and second 
tarsal joints very narrowly banded with yellow at the base in 
the fore legs, more distinctly so in the mid : in the hind legs 
there are prominent broad pale creamy basal bands to the meta¬ 
tarsi and first two tarsi (last two joints missing) : ungues of the 
fore and mid legs equal, uniserrated, the fore claws rather thicker 
than the middle ones. 
Fig. 146. 
Culex vagans, Wied. 
a. Wing, and b, scutellum of 9. 
"Wings with a slightly yellow tinge along the costal border . 
scales brown, the lateral ones long and thin as in the typical 
