144 KENEST HILL AND L, G. HATDON. 



Habitat. — Found occasionally on coast and at levels of 

 2000 ft. to 2800 ft.^ once in residual pools in a river bed, and 

 three times in marshy pools directly fed by small spring's. 



Season. — April to October. 



Relation to Malaria. — No evidence of any. 



Cellia jacohi 11. s^). 



We have not found any description tallying with this 

 species. It may be described in the following terms : 



A large black and white mosquito with spotted legs. 

 Palpi thickly covered with bushy black scales, a few white 

 interspersed; irregular white bands at apex and last joint, a 

 very narrow band about the middle, and a few white scales 

 in an incomplete ring between that and the base. A tuft of 

 white hairs on the clypeus overhanging origin of palpi. 



Thorax of sepia, with clothing of narrow curved white 

 scales forming three distinct longitudinal bands ; three Avhite 

 bands on lateral aspect of thorax ; abdomen black, thickly 

 covered with narrow curved yellow scales and long golden 

 liairs ; a thick lateral tuft of black scales on second to seventh 

 segments. 



Legs : Coxa and trochanter dark grey, flecked with white 

 scales. Femur and tibia thin, white scales predominating 

 over black, a few white flecks on black metatarsi ; white 

 bands at apex of metatarsus, and all tarsi, except in the fore 

 and mid legs the third ; tip of last tarsus white in all legs. 



Wing (PI. XXY, fig. g) : Costa is black; there are three 

 main white spots, which are small ; a fourth still smaller at 

 the apex, and two white dots at the base. First longitudinal 

 vein black, one white dot at base, a white spot under each of 

 the four remaining costal spots, mostly smaller than the 

 latter, and a minute group of white scales in the two long 

 black strips. Second longitudinal vein black, a white spot at 

 the fork, and a large Avhite patch on the posterior branch of 

 the first fork cell ; third vein mostly white with a black spot 

 at each end; fourth vein black, a white spot near the fork. 



