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rilK MtiSc^riTdKS i)F K(iVlT, TllK SIDAN AM) AIIVSSINIA 



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F.G. 1 



Cephalic and scutellar ornamentation of 



Ktorteptiomyia nu\iii'lifit:<iia 



Fiiiitde. lluiul bruwn, I'lothed with crcumy yuUuw st'ales in the iiiidilk! and 

 iiround the eyes, black at the sides, the scales behind and in tlie middle are narrow- 

 ^ ciirNcd (jnes and they extend ihi'nuuli to tlie IVtmt, and 



scattered between the loose flat paler yellow ones -which 

 form most of the median area ; fiat ])lack scales at tlie 

 sides, those rotiud the eyes pale yellow, fork-scales black 

 on the dark area, ochreous in the middle yell<iw area: 

 tlie A'cUow fork-scales have three terminal spines, the 

 black four or iive. Pali)i densely black scaled, short; 

 proboscis weak and tiiin, clothed with small black scales, 

 the yellowish ground color showing throtxgh ; antennic deep Ijrown, Ijasal joint 

 and next two following -with small flat creamy scales. 



Tliorax black with narrow-curwd golden scales and a few bronzy ones 

 behind: scutelliim with small flat black scales, mid lobe with live posterior 

 border-bristles ; metanotinn deep broAvn with a median paler line ; pleura? ])ale 

 ochreous. Abdomen black with a median line of creamy yellow scales, rather 

 broadest at the base. 



Legs ^\•itll yelloAv coxae, femora yelloAv with blackish scales abo\-e, and two 

 ])ale spots, yellow below ; the fore femora appear much paler than the inid and 

 hind ; tibia; black with scattered yellow scales and small yellow apex ; metatarsi 

 yellow at the base, and apex, and Avith a more or less pronounced yeUoAV median 

 band ; flrst two tarsi on all the legs Avith an apical yelloAV liand. last tAvo all 

 bi'oAvn : ungues small, eipial and simi)le. 



Wings (Plate I., Fig. I) and Plate II., Fig. 2), Avith dark scales basally 



and some spread out toAvai'ds the apex along 

 the costal border and another slightly dark 



area on the first fork-cell ; scales on the 



first long vein, upper branch of first fork-cell, 

 and one side of the base of the fourth, of 

 Mansonia type ; the second, fourth, fifth and 

 sixth AA'ith characteristic single line of heart- 

 shaped scales on the majoi- ai-ea, on most of 

 the branches of the fourth and fifth are clavate 

 scales, Avith very short peduncles ; a fcAV heart- 

 shaped ones at the base of the cells ; costa 

 spiny ; first submarginal cell longer and slightly 

 narroAver than the second posterior cell, its 

 l)ase nearer the base of the Aving. its stem 

 short, about one-fifth the length oi the cell : 

 stem of the second posterior not quite lialf 



the length of the cell ; j^osterior cross-vein about tAvice its own length distant 



from the mid. 



JM'Uiltli. ."> nnn. 

 Habitat. Pibor. 



Fig. 2 

 Scale> of EtorUptiotnyia tucdioliiteata 

 a & h Upright forked scales 

 c Ile.art-shaped wini^ scale 

 d Mansonia scales of costal border 

 e Other wing scales 



