SOME NE W MOSQ UITOES FR OM CEYLON. 249 



antennas deep brown with grey pubescence, and black verticillate 

 hairs ; the globular basal segment with a grey sheen. 



Thorax varying from deep brown to bright testaceous brown covered 

 with irregularly placed rather large flat spindle shaped scales of a 

 brown or bronzy hue, in front an.d on the prothoracic lobes small 

 rounded flat grey scales, over the roots of the wings some larger 

 flat scales, pale brown, grey or dull creamy colored, those at the 

 sides also larger and flatter ; a few short brown curved bristles in front 

 of the base of the wing and a row of long ones over the base curved 

 backwards ; scutellum (fig. 6, a, b,) deep brown, sending out a large thick 

 tapering blunt process backwards, covered with flat scales of dull grey 

 hues, the scales on the process smaller than on the base, the process has 

 also small thin forked scales below and is pale apically ; metanotum 

 chestnut brown; pleura? bright brown with flat white scales. Abdomen 

 covered with large flat brown scales above showing dull violet reflec- 

 tions ; ventrally dull ochreous, apparently no border bristles and the 

 large scales rather loosely applied to the surface ; apex with a few 

 bristles and some small fine black scales. 



Legs rather long and thin, deep brown with dull violet and bronzy 

 reflections in some lights, coxae bright brown with some white scales ; 

 femora with dull white scales beneath. 



Wings with the fork-cells small, the front sub-marginal longer and 

 narrower than the second posterior, its base about level with the base 

 of the second posterior cell, its stem very nearly as long as the cell, 

 stem of the second posterior also nearly as long as the cell ; posterior 

 cross-vein a little more than its own length distant from the mid, the 

 mid and supernumerary meeting at an angle ; scales on the branches of 

 the second long vein and on the apex of the first rather broad, flat 

 and dense, on the remainder of the first rather spinose, on the other 

 veins the lateral scales are linear but thicker than in Culex, median 

 vein-scales single ; upper costal border spinose^ 



Halteres with small yellow scales on the stem, dusky on the knob. 



Length 4 mm. 



Habitat : Peradeniya, Ceylon. 



Time of capture : October, (1901). 



Observations. — Described from a single perfect specimen, except 

 for the ungues. It is a very obscure -looking insect except for the 

 strange scutellar process. 



