﻿WITH 
  NOTES 
  ON 
  THE 
  GENITALIA 
  OF 
  SOME 
  AFRICAN 
  CULEX. 
  81 
  

  

  difficult 
  to 
  see) 
  ; 
  eleventh 
  segment 
  with 
  one 
  or 
  two 
  of 
  the 
  verticillate 
  hairs 
  on 
  the 
  

   under 
  side 
  thicker 
  than 
  the 
  others 
  ; 
  remaining 
  segments 
  normal. 
  Thorax 
  reddish 
  

   brown, 
  clothed 
  with 
  dark 
  brown 
  scales, 
  scutellum 
  lighter. 
  Abdomen 
  entirely 
  clothed 
  

   with 
  dark 
  brown 
  scales 
  above, 
  lighter 
  below. 
  Legs 
  with 
  dark 
  brown 
  scales, 
  femora 
  

   whitish 
  beneath 
  ; 
  claws 
  of 
  front 
  legs 
  unequal, 
  both 
  toothed 
  ; 
  on 
  middle 
  legs 
  unequal, 
  

   the 
  larger 
  one 
  simple, 
  the 
  smaller 
  toothed. 
  Wings 
  with 
  the 
  lateral 
  vein-scales 
  slightly 
  

   clavate 
  ; 
  first 
  fork-cell 
  with 
  its 
  base 
  slightly 
  nearer 
  the 
  base 
  of 
  the 
  wing 
  than 
  that 
  of 
  

   the 
  second. 
  

  

  Sarawak 
  (J. 
  Hewitt), 
  3 
  (J 
  (including 
  type) 
  in 
  the 
  British 
  Museum 
  ; 
  other 
  male 
  

   specimens 
  (paratypes) 
  in 
  the 
  Cambridge 
  museum. 
  

  

  Type 
  presented 
  by 
  the 
  Cambridge 
  Museum. 
  

  

  This 
  species 
  rather 
  closely 
  approaches 
  several 
  others. 
  From 
  L. 
  fraudatrix, 
  Theo., 
  

   it 
  differs 
  in 
  the 
  much 
  smaller 
  tuft 
  of 
  scales 
  on 
  the 
  sixth 
  antennal 
  segment 
  ; 
  from 
  

   L. 
  rubithoracis, 
  Leic, 
  in 
  having 
  these 
  same 
  scales 
  much 
  less 
  pointed 
  ; 
  and 
  from 
  

   L. 
  taeniata, 
  Leic, 
  in 
  the 
  unhanded 
  abdomen 
  and 
  the 
  larger 
  projection 
  at 
  the 
  base 
  of 
  

   the 
  palpi. 
  The 
  scales, 
  etc., 
  on 
  the 
  antennae 
  are 
  exactly 
  the 
  same 
  as 
  in 
  L. 
  taeniata, 
  

   and 
  L. 
  quadripalpis 
  may 
  therefore 
  be 
  only 
  a 
  variety 
  of 
  that 
  species. 
  

  

  Uranotaenia 
  metatarsata, 
  sp. 
  nov. 
  

  

  Head 
  clothed 
  entirely 
  with 
  flat 
  black 
  scales 
  ; 
  proboscis 
  black-scaled 
  ; 
  antennal 
  

   plumes 
  black. 
  Thorax 
  with 
  the 
  dorsum 
  brown, 
  rather 
  thinly 
  clothed 
  with 
  dark 
  

   brown 
  scales 
  ; 
  pleurae 
  yellowish, 
  unsealed 
  ; 
  no 
  line 
  of 
  flat 
  scales 
  in 
  front 
  of 
  the 
  base 
  

   of 
  the 
  wings. 
  Abdomen 
  with 
  blackish 
  brown 
  scales, 
  and 
  with 
  small 
  lateral 
  apical 
  

   pale 
  spots 
  on 
  each 
  segment. 
  Legs 
  entirely 
  clothed 
  with 
  dark 
  brown 
  scales 
  ; 
  claws 
  

   normal. 
  On 
  the 
  front 
  legs 
  the 
  first 
  joint 
  of 
  the 
  tarsus 
  is 
  shorter 
  than 
  the 
  second,, 
  

   curved, 
  with 
  a 
  small 
  tuft 
  of 
  scales 
  on 
  the 
  under 
  side 
  just 
  beyond 
  the 
  middle. 
  Middle 
  

   and 
  hind 
  legs 
  normal. 
  Wings 
  with 
  brown 
  scales, 
  those 
  on 
  the 
  apical 
  portion 
  of 
  the 
  

   wing 
  lanceolate. 
  

  

  Length 
  about 
  2 
  mm. 
  

  

  Malay 
  States 
  : 
  2 
  (J, 
  marshy 
  ground 
  on 
  Circular 
  Koad, 
  Kuala 
  Lumpur, 
  28. 
  viii. 
  

   1903 
  and 
  9. 
  x. 
  1903 
  (Dr. 
  G. 
  F. 
  Leicester). 
  

  

  This 
  is 
  the 
  third 
  species 
  to 
  be 
  described 
  in 
  this 
  genus 
  with 
  modified 
  front 
  tarsi 
  in 
  

   the 
  male. 
  The 
  other 
  two 
  (U. 
  cancer, 
  Leic, 
  and 
  U. 
  abnormalis, 
  Theo.) 
  have 
  the 
  first 
  

   joint 
  of 
  the 
  front 
  tarsi 
  of 
  quite 
  different 
  form, 
  and 
  both 
  belong 
  to 
  the 
  other 
  group 
  of 
  

   Uranotaenia 
  in 
  which 
  there 
  is 
  a 
  line 
  of 
  flat 
  scales 
  in 
  front 
  of 
  the 
  wing-base. 
  

  

  (CIO) 
  

  

  