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A Monorjraph of Culicidae. 
of the head ; eyes purplish-black with a silvery lustre, with a slight 
pale border; clypeus and palpi brown ; antennae brown, with 
the first two joints bright yellowish ; 
proboscis brown, slightly darker at 
the tip. 
Thorax dark brown, covered with 
bright, tawny, narrow curved scales, 
four rows of black bristles on the 
mesonoturfi, two median and two 
lateral; scutellum paler, with broadish 
white scales on the lateral lobes and 
narrow ones on the median, with a few broader ones at 
the base (Fig. 148, a) ; seven distinct brown hairs on the 
median lobe of the scutellum, numerous ones on the lateral 
lobes; metanotum j^ale brown ; pleurae pale ochraceous with 
three large patches of greyish-white scales; prothoracic lobes 
very distinct. 
Abdomen densely covered with dark brownish-black to 
almost pure black scales, each segment with a basal band of 
pale creamy-white scales, and their posterior borders edged with 
Fig. 147. 
Head of Culex caecus. n. sp. 
Fig. 148. 
Culex caecus. n. sp. 
a, Scutellum ; b and c, scutellar scales ; d. fork scale 
of head. 
pale, almost white hairs ; laterally white scales form a patch on 
each segment, and they become very abundant below, the greater 
part of each segment being covered by them. 
Fore legs covered with dark purplish-black scales, the femora 
white scaled beneath, knee spot pale, metatarsi and tarsi very 
dark, the former and the first tarsal with a pale basal ring ; 
mid legs the same, but the second tarsal has also a minute white 
ring ; hind legs with the metatarsi and all the tarsi with narrow 
basal white bands ; fore and mid ungues with small basal tooth 
(the hind ones not visible in the specimen). 
