A NEW GENUS OF CULICID^. 



53 



Closely related to Uranotania, but differing in the non- 

 plumose male antennae and peculiar ungues, also in the absence 

 of flat thoracic scales and more rugged appearance of the head 

 and scutellum. 



I cannot detect the genitalia, but the perfect specimens are 

 evidently all three males. The ungues are the most marked 

 characters, and can only be seen by breaking up the types. The 

 two species are undoubtedly connected by squamose characters 

 as well as the quaint ungues. Although the ungues are unequal, 

 as in all male Culicids, they are not very unequal in length, but 

 are in breadth, and differ in form. As no genitalia can be 

 detected, I can only assume them to be all males from the 

 abnormal ungues. A female sent was all destroyed but the 

 head and thorax, so no details can be given. The antennae are 

 less pilose than in the male. 



Anisocheleomyia nivipes, nov. sp. 



Head creamy-white. Thorax rich brown in the middle, creamy- 

 white around the dark area; pleurae creamy-white. Abdomen deep 

 brown with apical white bands. Legs deep brown, with pale reflections 

 apically, last two hind tarsi white. Wings ornamented ; costa dark, 

 veins pale-scaled except for a dark area spread across at the base of 

 the fork-cells ; a noticeable pale spot on the dark costal area not 

 reaching the costa. 



3 . Head brown, clothed with rather loosely applied creamy- white 

 flat scales ; antennae deep brown, basal segment deep reddish-brown; 

 clypeus brown ; palpi clothed with deep brown scales and with a few 

 long black chaetae; proboscis deep brown 

 with bronzy reflections swollen apically, 

 hairy. Thorax bright brown ; the middle 

 of the mesothorax with narrow-curved 

 bronzy-brown scales, and three rows of 

 black chaetae, the dark scaled area sur- 

 rounded by thicker creamy-white curved 

 scales, forming a well-contrasted whitish 

 area, which is indented into the dark 

 area on each side in front before the 

 base of the wings ; scutellum with small 

 flat dark brown scales and black border- 

 bristles, four to the mid-lobe ; meta- 

 notum bright chestnut-brown ; pleurae 

 clothed with dense creamy-white scales 

 continuous with the pale areas around 

 the mesothorax. Abdomen deep brown, 

 with deep brown scales and creamy- 

 white scaled apical borders ; the apical 

 segment all pale-scaled ; border-bristles 

 pale. Legs deep brown ; coxae and tro- 

 chanters pale, last two and apex of the antepenultimate hind tarsi 

 white; the fore and mid tarsi pale beneath; ungues unequal iu size, 



Ungues of Anisocheleomyia nivipes, 



n. sp. 



(i.Fore; ii. Mid; iii. Posterior.) 



