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are black, covered with numerous short white hairs ; verticillate hairs 

 black ; last joints of antenna not elongated. Clypeus dark brown, a 

 few narrow white scales on its anterior margin. Palpi black- scaled, 

 four-jointed ; third joint very long — lont/er than all the other joints })ut 

 to(jether; fourth joint minute. The palpi in this species are unusually 

 long, being fully half the length of the proboscis. Proboscis thick, 

 entirely black-scaled. Prothoracic lobes thickly clad with flat spatu- 

 late scales, white on the lower half, black above, and from the apex a 

 tuft of stout dark brown bristles projects. Mesonotum yellowish- 

 brown ; running round the margin anteriorly and laterally as far as 

 the wing bases is a creamy line, composed of broad-curved scales; the 

 rest of the mesonotum is densely clad with long narrow-curved bronzy 

 scales, which are specially dense and long over the roots of the wings, 

 where they form dense tufts ; the colour of these scales under a hand 

 lens is metallic bronze, but under a two-thirds power many appear pale 

 brown ; in some lights they appear purple, as do the dark scales on 

 the head and proboscis, indeed the scales on this mosquito show 

 a play of colours on every part as the angle of the light changes. 

 Pleura brownish, clothed with tufts of white elliptical scales. 

 Scutellum clad with flat black scales, purple or rose-purple in a good 

 light, on all the lobes, border-bristles brown. Wings clouded, covered 

 with dark brown scales, the lateral linear with square ends, the median 

 also rather narrow ; fork-cells moderately long ; the stem of first sub- 

 marginal cell about two-thirds length of cell ; the base of the cell 

 nearer the base of the wing than that of second ; the second posterior 

 cell is a little broader than first submarginal ; median and super- 

 numerary cross-veins meeting at an angle ; posterior cross-vein rather 

 short, distant about twice its length from the median. Legs with 

 coxiB pale ; fore and mid coxae with brown and white scales, the hind 

 with only white scales ; femora pale scaled beneath, though on the fore 

 legs there are dark brown scales intermingled; the rest of the legs and 

 the upper surface of femora clad with dark brown or purple scales, 

 according to the direction of the light ; there is no banding of the 

 legs nor any suggestion of it. On the fore legs there are a few yellow 

 scales at the apex of tbe tibias. The fore and mid ungues equal and 

 uniserrate. Metanotum yellowish-brown. Halteres with pale stems 

 and black and white scales on the knob. Abdomen covered with 

 broad purple-brown scales ; no dorsal banding, though the white 

 lateral bands almost meet over the apices of the segments ; laterally 

 there are conspicuous white bands passing from beneath upwards and 

 backwards ; these bands are shaped something like the mesial vertical 

 section of an arm-chair ; the scales forming them are bluish-white (in 

 the dried specimen they may change to a dirty yellow). 



" ^. The lateral band of creamy scales on the head is broader 

 than in the female. The vertical bristles are pale golden. Antennae 

 pale brown, two last joints black and elongated. Plumes long, dense 

 and purple-brown. Proboscis distinctly enlarged for about one-third 

 its length at the apex, black scaled. Palpi slender, longer than the 

 proboscis, scaled entirely save for a few white scales about the centre 

 of the first apparent joint with dark purple-brown scales. Fore and 

 mid ungues unequal, the larger uniserrated. Length 4-5 mm." 



** Habitat. — Kuala Lumpur." 



