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A NKW GENUS AND TWO NKW Sl-ECD'IS OF CULICID.i: FKOM THE SUDAN 



-D'iccrotnyin a/ricniin, 



St'it.'l'.inii 



Thorax almost black, clothed with narrow curved bronzy scales, some showing dull 

 golden reflections in certain lights, some almost creamy ones at the sides in front of the 

 wings ; ehsBtse deep brown with golden-brown reflections ; pleurae black with patches of flat 

 white scales ; scutellum black, the mid lobe with flat and narrow curved creamy scales, the 

 lateral lobes with them black ; chaetis dark ; metanotum black ; prothoracic lobes with 

 ochreous scales and long chaetae. Abdomen dark, ornamented as follows: basal segment 

 black scaled all over except for a median basal \vhite spot, hairs dense and golden, second 

 segment with a basal median creamy spot, 

 and traces of a white spot on each side 

 near the base and a few scattered yellow 

 scales, third to sixth segments with 

 prominent white lateral spots near the 

 base of the segments, with scattered 

 yellow scales amongst the black ones, rest 

 dark with some scattered yellow scales, 

 border-bristles golden. 



Legs dark blackish-brown, femora, 

 tibiae and to some extent the first tarsals 

 with scattered creamy' scales, base and 



venter of femora pale in the hind legs, all the tarsal segments with basal white bands, 

 in the fore and mid the last two tarsi are unhanded ; femoral and tibial hairs dark in 

 some lights, paler in others ; fore and mid ungues equal and imiserrate, hind equal 

 and simple. 



Wings with dense brown scales and some scattered white ones, many of modified 

 Mansonia type, others almost pyriform, and beneath them lateral linear scales on the apical 

 areas of the veins ; first fork-cell longer and slightly narrower than the second fork-cell, 

 their bases nearly level, stem of the first fork-cell not quite half the length of the cell, 

 stem of the second fork-cell rather more than half the length of the cell, posterior 

 cross-vein nearly three times its own length distant from the mid cross-vein. 



Length : 3'5 mm. 



$ Head with grey narrow curved scales and black upright forked scales, flat black and 

 creamy white ones at the sides of the head, some very broad upright scales in front, almost 

 like long stalked flat scales, chaetae black. 



AntennaB with brown plume hairs, pallid, the basal segment large, globular and dark 

 with small flat creamy scales, the second segment with dense creamy scales ; proboscis black 

 with a creamy median band, above which it ajjpears to be slightly angulated ; palpi 

 slightly longer than the proboscis with three white bands, and a minute white apical 

 segment, a few long lirown spines on the penultimate segment. The clypeus is black and 

 minutely hairy and has longer spine-like hairs at the end. Thorax black with narrow 

 curved pale golden and bronzy scales, of two sizes, chsetm dark, some with golden 

 reflections ; prothoracic lobes dark with small flat and narrow curved creamy scales and 

 long chaetse ; scutellum black with black and creamy flat scales and creamy narrow- 

 curved ones to the mid lobe, flat black ones to the lateral lobes, chaetiE black ; 

 metanotum black. 



Abdomen as in the $ ; genitalia, very marked with long dense scales on the inside 

 of basal lobe, a marked apical tuft of hair and small bifid claspers. Legs banded 

 and marked as in the ^ ; fore and mid ungues unequal and uniserrate. 



Wings with mottled dark and white scales, some of tlie large scales of Mansonia 



