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NEW MOSQUITOES EKOM THE SUDAN 
(lunus, 'L'uintorhiiuchmt, AiTibiilzagii-Theohald 
“ ]\Iono. Culiciil.,'' II., p. 1901 
Tauio- 
rliynchus 
violaccus 
TcVnidrlti/Hcfiiis rit>hu-riis^ ii. sp. 
Plates XXXIII., fig. 2, XXXVI., figs. I, 2, XXXVII., tig. o, XXXVIII., tig. 1, 
XXXIX., lig. :J, and XL., lig. 2 
Thora.K black with pale creamy scales in front, with faint greenish reflections. 
Abdomen metallic-violet, with small basal lateral creamy spots. Legs, unhanded violet, 
paler at base. 
< 1 ^— Hcml: shiny black, with narrow-curved scales, of a pale creamy colour with a faint 
tinge of pale green in some lights; long upright black forked scales and flat pale lateral ones ; 
antemue Idack, liasal segment globose, shiny, with a few curved hairs; palpi ratlier long, 
dark-scaled; proboscis dark, with violet retlections. 
Thorax: shiny black, with long narrow-curved scales, the front half with scales of a 
pale creamy colour, showing pale green in some lights, the posterior half with bronzy scales, 
except just in front of the bare space before the scutellum ; chaitaj long and black, especially 
over the liase of the wings; scutellum pale, with narrow-curved pale scales and black border- 
bristles, four largo ones to the mid lobe and several very small ones ; pleurae with patches 
of pale scales; metanotum deep brown. 
Abdomen : clothed wntli metallic-violet scales, the first segment with dusky scales and 
long brown fine hairs, the second and following segments with small basal lateral creamy 
spots ; posterior border-bristles brown, lateral ones pale golden to brown ; venter dusky. 
Ltajs: uniformly metallic-violet; femora testaceous at the base and below ; spines on 
the femora, tibiae and metatarsi thick and black ; ungues dark, equal and simple. 
with typical Tu-niorlii/nclin^: scales dark; the first sub-marginal cell longer, but 
no narrower than the second posterior cell, their bases about level; stem of the first 
sub-marginal cell less than one half the length of the cell; stem of the second posterior not 
quite one third the length of the cell, posterior cross-vein about twice its own length 
distant from the nnd ; halteres with pale stem and fuscous knob. 
Length : 5 mm. 
^ — I'aljii: longer than the proboscis, deep violet black, with black hair-tufts with violet 
reflections, apical segment shorter than the penultimate; anteniuB with dark plume hairs. 
Fore ungues uneijual, the larger biserrate, the smaller simple; mid unequal, the large 
biserrate, the smaller simple ; hind equal and simple. 
The claspers of the genitalia are of peculiar form (Plate XXXVII., fig. 5). 
Il7»(/s; with rather short fork-cells, first sub-marginal longer and narrower than the 
second posterior, its stem more than half the length of the cell; stem of the second posterior 
cell not (piite as long as the cell; posterior cross-vein not quite twice its own length distant 
from the mid cross-vein. 
Length : 5-5 mm. 
Habitat: Upper White Nile, taken at Taufikia and Kodok. (H. King.) 
(tbserrations : Described from two ^s and one The bright thoracic adornment and 
the brilliant violet abdomen at once enables the recognition of this species. The male 
claspers are very marked. 
