THEOBALD— DIPTERA, CULICID^ 85 



basal white bands tvith median lateral white spots. Legs deep brown with scattered 

 golden scales in certain lights, golden chsetaj on the tibite ; tarsi with basal white bands 

 on all segments of the hind legs, on all but the last in the mid and all but last two in the 

 front. 



$. Head black with creamy yellow scattered narrow-curved scales and numerous 

 black upright forked scales over most of the surface, a small patch of flat grey scales 

 anteriorly at the sides, with dusky ones behind and laterally, golden to creamy narrow- 

 curved scales around the eyes ; chsetee deep brown with golden sheen apically ; clypeus 

 bright brown, slightly acuminate ; proboscis deep brown with scattered yellowish scales on 

 the basal half; antennae brown, basal segment bright pale brown, some scanty dark scales 

 basally. 



Thorax deep rich brown with scattered small pale golden narrow-curved scales, which 

 are more dense in two patches in front and on the middle of the mesonotum, forming 

 indistinct spots (the median most prominent) and around the front, there are also traces 

 of linear arrangement in certain lights, cha^tte rich brown with golden reflections ; 



Fig. 3. Culicelsa fryeri, nov. sp., 9 > wing. 



scutellum brown with almost cream-coloured narrow-curved scales, which spread into the 

 mesonotum, border bristles rich brown ; metanotuni brown ; pleurse brown with creamy 

 puncta of flat scales. 



Abdomen black, banded, the basal segment with white scales laterally and in the 

 middle, dark scales apically in the middle ; second to fifth segments with basal white 

 bands which on the second and fifth spread outward slightly in the middle line, the fifth 

 segment with a narrow band of apical creamy scales and the sixth with ochreous yellow 

 median scales and a similar coloured apical band, all the segments with median lateral 

 white spots, most prominent on the fifth and spreading on to the dorsum ; border bristles 

 pale golden brown ; venter mostly white scaled, with narrow dark apical bands. 



Legs banded, dark brown with scattered golden scales on the femora and tibite and a 

 few on the first tarsal segment, femora mostly pale scaled beneath, apex of femora and 

 tibiae yellow, base of first, second and third front tarsals with narrow white bands, last two 

 dark, in mid legs the fourth has also a narrow white band, in the hind legs all the tarsals 

 have broader basal white bands ; femora, tibiae and to some extent the first hind tarsals 

 with golden bristles ; ungues, equal and uniserrate on fore and mid legs, equal and simple 

 on hind. Wings (Text-fig. 3) with mottled scales ; scales on the basal half of the wing 

 rather broad and spatulate, lateral vein scales tliinner past the cross-veins ; fork-cells 



