78 A Monograph of Culicidae. 



Genus MYZORHYNCHELLA. nov. gen. 



Head clothed with rather long flattened outstanding scales, 

 not closely appressed, but not so erect as upright forked scales, 

 some more erect than others and narrower, but not forked and 

 fimbriated as in most Anophelinae. Thorax and scutellum with 

 broad curved scales. 



Abdomen with hairs only. Wings with dense broad short 

 lanceolate scales. Male palpi elbowed, partly tufted. Larger 

 fore ungues biserrate. Closely allied to Myzorhynchus, but at 

 once told by the peculiar head scales which do not occur in any 

 other group of Anojihelinae. 



A single species only known. 



MYZORHYNCHELLA NIGRA. n. Sp. 



9 . Head black with a median bare line, flat grey scales on 

 each side with a dull blue shade, flat rather outstanding black 

 ones on each side of the pale median area, becoming more 

 upright at the back, and with some small outstanding narrow 

 white ones in front, a few narrow-curved creamy scales between 

 the eyes in front, and a tuft of long pale hairs projecting 

 forwards. Antennae black with a few scales on the basal 

 segments, and pale pubescence to the internodes; palpi black 

 scaled with four narrow white bands, the two apical ones close 

 together, the third closer to the second than the third is to the 

 fourth ; proboscis thin, black. 



Thorax black with creamy-white spindle-shaped scales and 

 dark chaetae, a tuft of longer pale scales on each side in front ; 

 scutellum with similar scales to mesonotum but narrower; 

 metanotum black. 



Abdomen black with dull golden hairs, no scales. 



Legs with the femora, tibiae and to some extent the first tarsals 

 with brown and pale scales ; first tarsals and two following tarsals 

 of fore legs with pronounced apical white bands ; in the mid legs 

 the femora are darker and have a pure white spot near the apex 

 and the apical bands are much narrower ; in the hind legs the 

 femora have the white spot near the apex, are all dark as also the 

 tibiae, the last three tarsals snowy white, also half the second and 

 apex of the first ; femora and tibiae of all the legs white 

 beneath ; apex of all the tibiae also white. 



Wings dusky, scaled with dark scales and a few yellow patches ; 



