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NEW CULICID^ FROM THE FEDERATED MALAY 



STATES. 



By Fred. V. Theobald, M.A. 



(Continued from p. 165.) 



Observations. — The two types sent by Dr. Leicester are not 

 quite perfect, having been shghtly damaged in transit. They 

 were bred from larva3 taken in bamboo jungle on the Pahang 

 Road, about five and three-quarter miles from Kuala Lumpur. 

 The thoracic adornment is so very marked the species cannot 

 well be mistaken, for in M. tremula, which it resembles, the 

 golden scales of the mesothorax form but very indistinct lines, 

 not clear narrow ones as in this species. Dr. Leicester's descrip- 

 tion of the scutellum must be modified, for the scales are certainly 

 not of the usual spindle- shape, but flattened on the mid lobe, 

 much smaller and more irregular than in Stegomyia, and with 

 more rounded apices. — (F. V. T.) 



Genus Leicestepja, nov. gen. 

 Head covered with flat scales, upright forked scales, and a row of 

 sj)indle-shaped creamy ones around the eyes. Palpi in the female 

 four-jointed, long, being fully one-half the length of the proboscis ; 

 in the male the palpi are longer than the proboscis and slender, no 

 hair-tufts. Proboscis swollen apically. Mesothorax with narrow and 

 broad-curved scales ; scutellum with flat scales ; prothoracic lobes 

 with flat scales. Venation and wing scales much as in SUyoiiujia. 



This genus comes near Eretmapodites, from which it differs 

 in (1), having a narrow -scaled border around the eyes ; (2), the 

 great length of the palpi, in the female, the long palpi also 

 separating it from the other allied genera {Macleayia, Scutomijia, 

 &c.). A single species only is known, which is here described by 

 Dr. Leicester. 



Lbicesteria longipalpis, Leicester, n. sp. 



" Head black in the middle, creamy at the sides ; palpi half the 

 length of the proboscis, both black. Thorax yellowish brown, with 

 bronze scales and a creamy line on each side as far as the base of the 

 wings. Abdomen with apical white lateral spots. Legs unhanded. 



" $ . Head black ; the vertex, occiput and nape covered with 

 broad flat black scales; along the orbital mai'gin is a narrow row of 

 spindle-shaped creamy scales ; laterally, where the black scales end, 

 is a baud of creamy scales, and then black scales again ; there 

 are a moderate number of black upright forked scales confined to 

 the nape. Antennae with the basal joint pale dirty yellow ; the inner 

 face is rather thickly clad with small flat scales with a few dark ones 

 interspersed ; the basal half of second joint is similar in colour to the 

 basal joint ; the apical half and the succeeding joints of the auteunfe 



