86G GNATS OR MOSQUITOES — CHAPTER XIII 



and golden scales, paler at the roots of the wings. Abdominal 

 segments black, with distal ochreous bands. Proboscis black, 

 vvith two narrow ochreous bands at the tip, and in the middle of 

 its length. 



Head covered with dull, pale, creamy-white curved scales, with scat- 

 tered brown, forked, upright ones behind, which are ochreous at the 

 tips, and flat white ones at the sides, forming a pale spot ; palpi of 3 

 dark brown, with the apical joint yellow, and ending in a brown spine, 

 base of the next two joints banded with yellow, the following with a 

 broad and narrow paler yellow band, liairs almost black ; of the 2 > one- 

 fiftli the lengtli of the proboscis, black with a minute yellow tip ; 

 antenna' banded brown and white, plumes brown ; pleura; brown with a 

 patch of white scales ; legs dark-coloured, clothed with a mixture of 

 black and golden scales, the former preponderating except on the under 

 sides of the femora. Length. — 4"5 mm. ; of wing, 4 mm. ; of ^ palpi, 

 'i''d mm. 



Habitat. — Madras, Travancore, Shahjahanpur, N.W.P., India. 



Note. — Mr. Theobald's description of this species for the Monograph 

 was already in the press when he received the paper containing another 

 description which I sent through him to the " Entomologist," but with 

 characteristic courtesy, he insists on its standmg as mine under the 

 name he had adopted for it. It appeared in my Prodromus of Indian 

 Culicidce under the above synonj'iu, but I was careful to note that the 

 names of new species should be regarded as merely provisional, as it was 

 quite possible that, though in correspondence, the same species might be 

 described by Mr. Theobald and myself. 



11. T^NIORHYNCHUS PERTURBANS (Walker). 



Insect. Saunders, p. 428. 



Wing unspotted, with the veins densely clothed with uniformly 

 dark scales of fairly typical form, but rather squai'er than usual 

 at the tip. The first tarsal joints have all barely perceptible 

 basal, and a broad and distinct median yellowish ring. All the 

 other tarsal joints appear to be distinctly basally banded with the 

 same light tint (one or two of the terminal tarsals are wanting 

 in type). Thorax with testaceous ground, clothed with narrow- 

 curved yellow scales in front and laterally, and with a patch of 

 silvery ones behind (probably more or less ornamented in the 

 fresh state). Abdomen chocolate-brown, with narrow golden 

 basal bands. Proboscis pale at tip and in the middle, forming 

 a distinct but not sharply-limited band. 



5 . — Head, with chestnut-brown ground, clothed with yellowish-brown, 

 erect forked, and golden narrow-curved scales ; antennae never as long 

 as proboscis, the first two joints very short, verticillate hairs, excep- 

 tionally numerous and long ; palpi yellow-brown, less than one-fourth 



