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very long. The hind legs, when the insect is resting, are held 

 straight out, close together and quite close to the surface upon 

 which the fly rests, an abnormal attitude in the Culicinse. 



Orthopodomyia albipes, Leicester, n. sp. 



" A medium- sized species much speckled with yellow and grey, 

 and with the last three bind tarsi with conspicuous creamy yellow, 

 others with narrow, basal bands. Wiugs with four prominent white 

 costal spots and three small ones at the base. Proboscis with two 

 white bands. Palpi of female more than half as long as the 

 proboscis. 



" ? . Head broad transversely, set close to the thorax, dark grey, 

 in a poor light almost black, densely clad with white narrow-curved 

 scales and upright forked scales which are white in front and dark 

 brown behind ; the fork- scales are very numerous, broad -topped, 

 the free forked edge with numerous serrations ; there is a small patch 

 of broad, white fiat scales, laterally on either side, very difficult to 

 see; there are two vertical bristles, dark brown in colour, projecting 

 forwards, and three or four post-orbitals. Antennae with the basal 

 joint brown, the inner and upper faces rather densely clad with 

 creamy spindle-shaped scales ; the second joint is a dirty white at 

 either end and black in the middle ; the verticillate hairs are inserted 

 about the middle, and are very short except on the inner face; there 

 is a tuft of long creamy yellow scales on the inner face ; other hairs 

 are inserted near the base, and there is a whorl of short stiff bristles 

 inserted at the end of the joint ; the succeeding joints are black at the 

 apices and at the insertion of the verticillate hairs, and dirty white 

 between their immediate bases ; at the apex of each joint except the 

 last there is a whorl of short stiff hairs. Clypeus naked, dark brown. 

 Palpi 5-jointed; first joint short, swollen and constricted in the 

 middle ; second joint longer, linear ; third about as long as the first 

 two, rather swollen at the apex ; fourth joint about one-third the 

 length of third ; fifth joint minute, but quite distinct. The whole 

 palp is about two-thirds the length of the proboscis, but when dry it 

 shrinks to about half the length of the proboscis ; it is black scaled 

 except for some white scales on the upper surface of the first joint, 

 a ring of white scales at the apex of the second, third and fourth 

 joints, and white scales over the whole of the fifth joint. Proboscis 

 long, black scaled over the first half, then there is a band of creamy 

 scales extending about twice as far on the under surface as it does 

 above ; beyond this above are black scales, and white and black again 

 at the immediate apex. The labellae are creamy yellow. Prothoracic 

 lobes black, not prominent, covered with white narrow-curved scales 

 above and with broader almost spindle-shaped white scales below. 

 Metanotum dark grey, almost black, covered with narrow-curved 

 scales, black, tawny and white in colour, arranged in a sort of pattern. 

 The anterior margin is covered with white scales, followed laterally 

 by tawny scales ; dorsally in the centre is a line of white scales 

 running about half way across the metanotum and ending opposite a 

 diamond- shaped patch of tawny scales edged with a few black scales 



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