234 FRED. V. THEOBALD M. A., CULICIDAE ETC. 



o. Head clothed with flat bronzy scales which show some 

 apple green reflections, pale blue and grey around the eyes ; 

 three thick black chaetae on each side in front and some in the 

 median line in front ; clypeus brown with grey sheen ; palpi 

 black with violet reflections on some of the scales, a mauve 

 scaled apex and another narrow mauve scaled band ; proboscis 

 dark scaled with violet and metallic reflections, normally curved; 

 antennae brown, basal segment with grey sheen, second seg- 

 ment not much longer than the third with dark scales, 

 slightly swollen. 



Thorax black with bright coppery scales, pale blue in front 

 of the roots of the wings, pale blue and grey in fron^j and at the 

 sides, larger and apple green towards the scutellum ; sciitellum 

 with pale apple green scales, smaller in the middle than at 

 the sides, the latter show also j)ale bronzy reflections; chaetae 

 at base of wings and on the posterior border of the scutellum; 

 metanotum black ; pleurae black with patches of flat silvery 

 white scales. 



Abdomen clothed with metallic apple green scales, last two 

 seo-ments metallic violet ; a p i c a 1 s e g m e n t with a dense 

 tuft of bright orange chaetae, some short black ones at the 

 sides of the previous one and some orange ones on the next; 

 laterally are pale creamy scales on the segments and the venter 

 is pale creamy. 



Legs, front pair with metallic violet femora and tibiae, the 

 former golden beneath at the base, the latter with a few 

 white apical scales ; greater part of the metatarsus snowy 

 white, the apex violet; midlegs with the femora as in the 

 fore, tibiae golden scaled with a few scattered dark ones, 

 violet at the apex, metatarsus with the basal half pale golden, 

 all the tarsi snowy white; hind legs with the femora golden 

 at base and below, violet at the apex above; tibiae violet above, 

 golden below and some golden scales passing upwards at the 

 raid region, a broad pale golden basal band to the metatarsi 



