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DESCRIPTION OF A NEW CULEX

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2012

John. A. Grossbeck
Affiliation:
Paterson, N. J.

Extract

Culex siphonalis, sp. nov.—♀. Head brown, occiput covered with pale yellow scales, antennæ brown, basal joint and two following ones testacesou; proboscis pale brown, with dark brown scales scattered over the surface, covering the apical fourth; palpi dark brown, with minute terminal joint oval in form, pointed at the apex and slightly spiny. Mesonotum covered with pale yellow and brown scales at the sides and with a median vitta wholly of brown scales, the pale yellow scales sometimes forming a narrow border to this vitta; scutellum brown, with yellowish-brown bristles on the posterior margin; metanotum evenly brown; pleura brown, clothed with patches of dirty white scales; halteres yellowish-white, black at the apex.

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Copyright
Copyright © Entomological Society of Canada 1904

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