300 F. V. THEOBAI.D : Culicidcp and Corethridcs. [Voiv. II, 



*3i. Chrysoconops pygmc^us, sp. nov. 



Head and thorax golden yellow, proboscis and palpi oclireous^ 

 with dusky scales especially at the tip of the proboscis. 



Abdomen violet-brown with some basal creamy bands and 

 yellow- scaled apex. 



Legs unhanded ochreous brown. 



Wing-scales brownish, fork-cells rather small. 

 5 . Head ^^ellowish brown clothed with creamy yellow 

 narrow-curved scales, dense golden yellow upright forked scales 

 and golden chsetae. E^^es black and silvery. Palpi rather long 

 ochreous with rather transparent dusky scales and black chsetse 

 proboscis ochreous, clothed with metallic violet-brown scales 

 antennae brown with pale bands at the verticels and testaceous 

 basal segments. 



Thorax bright reddish brown, shiny, clothed with golden 

 yellow curved scales and golden 3^ellow chsetse ; scutellum similarly 

 adf^rned, with two large golden posterior border-bristles on each 

 side of the mid lobe and two very small ones between ; metanotum 

 golden 3^ellow'; pleurae yellow and brown with two patches of sil- 

 very white flat scales. 



Abdomen clothed with brown and metallic violet scales, the 

 fourth segment with a basal yellow-scaled band, the next with a 

 more prominent one and the apical segments with many yellow 

 scales, hairs golden. 



Legs ochreous, clothed with brown scales which darken 

 towards the end, base and venter of femora with ochreous scales, 

 in some lights the leg-scales show violet reflections ; chaetse brown; 

 ungues dark, equal and simple. 



Wings with brownish scales; fork-cells rather short, the first 

 submarginal a little longer and narrower than the second posterior, 

 its base a little nearer the apex of the wing than that of the latter, 

 its stem nearly two- thirds the length of the cell, stem of the second 

 posterior a little more than half the length of the cell; posterior 

 cross-vein not quite its own length distant from the mid. Halteres 

 pale yellow. 



Length 4 mm. 



Habitat Sylhet, Assam [Major Hall]. 



Observations. — Described from a single perfect 2 . It comes 

 very near Chrysoconops brevicellulus , but can be told by the com- 

 pletely golden thorax, smaller size and different venation. 



32. Chrysoconops brevicellulus ^ Theobald. 



Calcutta, August (i); Sylhet, Assam ; Sangar, Manipur Hut, 

 February (i), May (t), June (i), atnight ; Manipur [C.A. Gourlay], 

 August, on wall of bungalow. 



33. Mansonia uniformis, Theobald. 



Sylhet, Assam [Major Hall], January (2), February (3), March 

 (I), May (8), June (3), July (i), December (4); Manipur [C.A. 



