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very long curved hair-like scales. Protboracic lobes large, witb a 

 tuft of black spatulate scales on the anterior face, and with black 

 bristles. Abdomen with hairs only, except the last two segments, 

 which have lanceolate scales. Hind legs with a dense tuft of out- 

 standing scales on the apex of the femora. Wings clothed with 

 broadish blunt lanceolate scales. 



This genus approaches Nyssorhynchus, Theob., but differs in 

 having long, curved hair-like scales on the thorax instead of 

 narrow-curved and spindle-shaped ones. The dense apical tufts 

 on the hind femora are very marked in both sexes. 



So far I have seen no Anopheline approaching it in general 

 appearance. Possibly others will be found in jungle growth. 



A single species only is known, and is here described by Dr. 

 Leicester. 



The female type is, unfortunately, broken in transit. 



LoPHoscELOMYiA AsiATicA, Leicester, sp. n. 



" Hind legs with the femora with a dense apical tuft of long 

 black and white scales. Wings with two yellow costal spots. Tarsi 

 unhanded. 



" 2 . Head black, frosted, when dry dark brown ; the scales are 

 arranged in tufts, and bare places are left between ; it is rather lighter 

 along the orbital margins, giving the appearance, under a hand lens, 

 of a narrow white margin to the eyes ; on the vertex is a tuft of long, 

 silky hair-like scales, with a double curve on them which project well 

 forwards; behind these are a few white narrow-curved scales placed on 

 either side of a bare black line and extending but a small way back 

 and laterally for a short distance down the orbital margins ; behind 

 these are some flat-topped white upright scales which merge behind 

 into a dense mass of black (when dry, brown) upright scales extending 

 laterally over the occiput to just short of the eyes, from which they 

 are separated by a bare space. I can perceive no flat scales anywhere. 

 There are a few black narrow-curved scales succeeding the white along 

 the orbital margin. The eyes are a metallic bronzy-green. Antennae 

 with the basal joint dusky, its depression brown, some rather broadly 

 spindle-shaped white scales on its inner face ; the second joint light 

 brown, some black spindle-shaped scales on its inner face, succeeding 

 joints similar but without scales ; all the joints except the basal one 

 covered with short white hair ; verticillate hairs pale brown. Palpi 

 equal in length to proboscis ; pallid, covered with long black scales, a 

 few pale ones at the junction of the third and fourth joints, and some 

 pallid hairs at the tip (best seen with a hand lens). Proboscis 

 covered with black short scales ; labellte fawn-coloured. Mesonotum 

 with the greater part of the upper surface of a pale fawn colour (in 

 some lights it has a greenish tinge) with a dark brown line in the 

 centre in front ; on either side there are two dark brown patches 

 separated by a narrow pale line. Looked at sideways these patches 

 look lighter except for a small round dark spot at the upper part 

 of pale line separating the two patches. In front is a rosette of fairly 

 broad curved scales, white in colour; the rest of the mesonotum is 

 covered with scattered pale golden hair-like curved scales (white in 



