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Genus WYEOMYIA, Theobald. 

 Mono. Culicid II, p. 267 (1901), and III, p. 310 (1903). 



WVEOMYIA GREBNII, n. Sp. (fig. 5). 



Thorax brown with bronzy scales ; pleurae silvery white. Abdomen 

 black with two pure white basal bands on the apical portion and with 

 prominent basal silvery white lateral patches, triangular in form. 

 Proboscis rather short, black ; legs black, unhanded. 



9 Head entirely clothed with large flat brown and violet scales, a few 

 grey ones at the sides ; proboscis not much more than half the length 

 of the whole body, deep blackish brown ; palpi dark-scaled with some 

 creamy scales apically. 



Thorax shiny black with large flat metallic bronzy, dull green and 

 mauve scales ; scutellum with similar flat scales of various dull metallic 

 tints ; metanotum brown with short black chaetae ; pleurae testaceous 

 with silvery grey spots. 



Abdomen black, the fifth, sixth and seventh segments with basal white 

 bands, the sides of all the segments with basal triangular white spots, 

 most prominent on the basal segments; the abdomen is compressed 

 basally, depressed apically. 



Legs blackish ; venter of femora pale unhanded, rather thick ; ungues 

 small, equal and simple. Wings with brown scales, the lateral vein- 

 scales linear, rather dense, first sub-marginal cell longer and narrower 

 than the second posterior cell, its stem about two-thirds the length of the 

 cell, stem of the second posterior as long as the cell ; posterior cross- vein 

 nearly twice its own length distant from the mid. 



Length 4 mm. 



$ Head clothed with flat dusky scales ; antennae (fig. 5) brown, the 

 lower third with the long verticillate hairs, upper two-thirds with dense 

 short hairs only, except for one group of three or four long ones towards 

 the middle of the short-haired area ; palpi small, black-scaled ; 

 proboscis rather longer than in the 9 , black. 



Thorax clothed as in the 9 ; prothoracic lobes white-scaled. 



Abdomen black with rich violet reflections and with basal lateral white 

 triangular spots ; apical segment expanded, basal lobes of genitalia very 

 large, scaly and hairy. Legs brown unhanded. 



Length 4 mm. 



Habitat : Peradeniya, Ceylon. 



Time of capture : January and February (1902). 



