CULICID GENUS LEICESTERIA, THEOBALD. 



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Length of body (without head) about 4 mm. 



The following speeimens are in the British Museum : Type and one other 

 male and one female, bred from larvae in bamboo, Ulu Goinbak, Federated 

 Malay States, 28. viii. 03 and 2. is. 03 (Dr. C. W. Daniels); 2 Q, at edges of 

 stream in jungle, The Gap, 16. iv. 04 (Dr. G. F. Leicester) : 1 tf 1 Q, Panang 

 Road jungle, 6 miles from Kuala Lumpur, 4. iv. 03 and 18. x. 03 (Dr. G. F. 

 Leicester) ; 1 <$ 2 Q, Mailum Negros, Philippine Islands, 9. vi. 06 (C. S. Banks ; 

 identified by the collector as L. longipalpis). 



10. L. pectinata, sp. n. $ Q. 



Differs from L. digitata only as follows : Rather larger (5 mm.) ; female palpi 

 shorter, scarcely more than half the length of the proboscis. Male genitalia : 

 the claspers terminate in a comb-like row of nine teeth ; the basal lobes of the 

 side pieces each carry two separate pairs of teeth. 



Fig. 7. — Male genitalia of Leicesteria pectinata, Edw. 



Type male and one female bred from larvae (?) in leaf in jungle, 3-7. ix. 04, at 

 Jugra, Federated Malay States (Dr. G. F. Leicester). A second male (the one 

 figured) is unlabelled, but looks as though it may have belonged to the same lot. 

 There is a female in the Cambridge Museum from Sarawak (J. Hewitt). 



