102 A Monograph of Culicidae. 



Thorax black to blackish-brown, with scattered snowy-white, 

 spindle-shaped scales and some brown ones projecting forwards 

 between the thorax and nape ; prothoracic lobes brown, with 

 white scales. Scutellum with spindle-shaped white scales. Pleurae 

 dark and paler brown, slightly mottled, and with scattered white 

 scales. 



Abdomen black with brown hairs, the last three segments 

 with narrow white scales, especially on the apical borders ; 

 genitalia densely scaled with small, flat, and narrow-curved 

 white scales. 



Wings ornamented much as in N. stephensi, but the fourth 

 black spot on the first long vein extends backwards past the 

 small white costal spot. There are also more dark scales on the 

 branches of the first sub-marginal cell, and three (not two) spots 

 on the upper branch of the fifth vein. 



Legs brown, the fore pair with apical pale bands to the 

 first three tarsal segments, and a white apical spot to the 

 tibiae ; ungues unequal, the larger biserrated ; mid legs with a 

 pale apical band to the first tarsal only, and a trace of a pale 

 tibial spot, ungues apparently equal, both uniserrated ; hind legs 

 with the last three segments white ; also the apical half of the 

 second tarsal, apex of first and tibiae also white, ungues small, 

 equal and simple. 



Length. — 3 ■ 5 mm. 



Habitat. — Kuala Lumpur. 



Time of capture. — January. 



Observations. — Described from three $ 's. This species comes 

 very near Nyssorhynchus stepliensi, the wing ornamentation being 

 almost the same. The thoracic scales, however, are spindle- 

 shaped, not narrow-curved, and the legs are not speckled. Nor 

 are the hind legs of N. stephensi white at their apex as in this 

 species. 



It also comes near N. maculatus, Theobald, but differs from 

 this species in (1) the mid ungues of the male not being simple, 

 and in (2) the greater number of white hind tarsal segments. 



Giles, in his "Revision of the Anophelinae" p. 43 (1904), 

 refers to this under a MS. name. It was described in the 

 preceding year. 





