1908.) Records of the Indian Museum. 299 



larger chsetse deep brown, but the smaller ones in front of the wings, 

 and some over the head pale golden ; scutellum pale brown with 

 small narrow-curved pale golden scales similar in colour to those 

 at the mesonotum near it ; pleurae pale ochreous with some pale 

 flat scales and two dark patches ; metanotum bright chestnut- 

 brown. 



Abdomen deep brown, clothed with deep brown scales and 

 with dull white lateral basal patches, but extending partly along 

 the whole length of the segments ; border-bristles pale, venter 

 mostly grey scaled. 



Legs brown, unhanded, coxse pallid, base and venter of femora 

 pale ; ungues small, equal and simple. 



Wings with rather long fork-cells, the first submarginal much 

 longer and a little narrower than the second posterior cell, its base 

 nearer the base of the wing, its stem less than one-third the length 

 of the cell ; stem of the second posterior about two-thirds the 

 length of the cell ; mid cross-vein nearer the apex of the wing than 

 the supernumerary, the posterior cross-vein nearly twice its own 

 length distant from the mid. 



Length 3 to 3*5 mm. 



cf . Palpi thin, brown, the last two segments about equal, 

 with short black bristles, scarcely to be called a hair-tuft. Fore 

 ungues unequal, uniserrate ; mid nearly equal, uniserrate ; hind 

 small, equal and simple. 



Wings with the first submarginal cell a little longer and nar- 

 rower than the second posterior cell, its base a little nearer the 

 base of the wing. Claspers of male genitalia rather broad, lateral 

 process of basal lobe with three large broad spines and three 

 smaller ones. 



Length 3 to 3'5 mm. 



Habitat Sylhet , Assam [Major Hall] ; Lushai Hills, Assam 

 [E. C. Macleod]; Calcutta [A^ Annandale]; Lungleh, Lushai Hills, 

 Assam. 



Time of capture Calcutta in December ; Lushai Hills, June, 

 July. 



Observations. — Described from two 5 2 and three cf cf . A 

 small obscure species easily told by its unhanded abdomen. It can 

 only be confused with Culex fuscocephala, Theob., described from 

 Ceylon, but the latter has a dark fuscous head, and there are no 

 basal lateral pale spots. 



29. T ceniorhynchus ager, Giles. 



Sylhet, Assam [Major Hall], January (5), February (2), April 

 (i). May (i) ; some specimens large, up to 6 mm. 



30. T ceniorhynchus tenax, Theobald, 



Sylhet, Assam [Ma/of Ha//], March (i), April (i). May (2), 

 June (i) , Manipur [C. A. Gourlay], August. 



