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ground colour, unadorned. Abdomen brown, with marked broad 

 apical ferruginous bands in both sexes. Proboscis with a broad 

 yellowish band beyond the middle. Wing-length 4-5 mm. $ , 

 4 mm S . This species is remarkable for the fact that, while 

 the long veins of the male carry a quite characteristic armature 

 of bracket-shaped scales, in those of the $ , it much more 

 resembles that of a Culex, only a part of the anterior veins 

 showing a few unsymmetrical scales, and those ill marked. 



The head is clothed with yellowish scales ; the 5 palpi are one-third 

 the length of tlie proboscis, dark, with a faint yellow band at the base of 

 the short end-joint ; and those of tlie S nearly black, with a long j-ellow 

 tip and four other bands of the same colour, the largest of which is 

 exactly opposite the broad ferruginous band just beyond the middle of 

 the proboscis. The halteres are pale yellow. The venter impure yellow 

 throughout. In the wings the white scales rather preponderate. The 

 thighs are very indistinctly marbled rather than banded. In the female 

 there is a broad pale band on the middle of the first tarsal joints, in 

 addition to its basal band, on the hind, and in its absence, in the other 

 two pairs of legs, the two last joints of these legs not being perceptibly 

 banded. The pale band on the proboscis is shax'ply defined in front, 

 but shades off behind into the darlcer base. Length. — 4'5 to 5 mm. 



Habitat. — Appears to occur all over India, and also in the Straits 

 Settlements; I found some in Shahajahanpur, N.W.P., for a few days 

 early in October, after which it disappeared. 



4. PANOPLITES AMAZONENSIS, Theob. (Monog. II, p. 182). 



Wings unspotted, but brindled, the dark scales greatly pre- 

 ponderating, except in the rank of short scales of the inner 

 fringe, where they ai'e about equal in numbers. 



Thorax dark brown, the front of the mesonotum covered with 

 bright golden-brown scales. Abdomen dark brown, unhanded, 

 with yellow and grey scales on the lateral borders, and a patch 

 of white scales on the apex of the first segment. Legs brown, 

 bases of the tarsal joints basally pale-banded, yellow on the fore 

 and mid, white on the hind legs ; ungues equal and simple. 



$ . — Head black, with a few curved dull golden scales, a small white 

 patch on each side, a pale border to the eyes and numerous black upright 

 forked scales ; palpi rather shorter than in most members of the genus, 

 bemg barely a third the length of the proboscis, covered with loose 

 black scales, with a few grey ones dotted about ; proboscis brown, with 

 a small white band beyond the middle, and with jeUow scales dotted 

 over the basal half ; antennie black, with narrow clear white rings, basal 

 joint black, with yeUow scales, second joint black, with black scales. 



Thighs and tibiie very dark, not banded, but brindled with a few pale 

 scales. The basal bands of the first tarsal joints are so narrow as to 



