138 A Monograph of Culicidae. 



Megarhinus? minimus. Theobald (1905). 

 Journal Bombay Natural History Society, Vol. XVI., p. 237 (1905). 



Thorax shiny black with metallic bronzy scales, some blue and 

 green scales at the base of the wings ; pleurae silvery white ; 

 prothoracic lobes blue. Head bronzy brown with metallic green 

 and blue border around the eyes. Palpi long, acuminate and 

 thin, deep violet ; proboscis deep violet. Abdomen metallic 

 violet and purple with creamy lateral spots, the apical segment- 

 coppery red ; basal lobes of genitalia deep brown. Legs brown 

 with violet reflections, creamy at the base of the femora and 

 below the femora. 



$ . Head black with deep bronzy brown flat scales behind 

 and over most of the surface with sometimes metallic reflections 

 and with metallic green and blue scales around the eyes. Two 

 black chaetae project forwards between the eyes and one on each 

 side of the median pair. 



Antennae brown, the basal joint large and globular, black 

 with a grey sheen at the sides ; clypeus black ; proboscis metallic 

 violet ; palpi long, thin, metallic violet, acuminate ; composed of 

 four segments, the acuminate apical one slightly longer than the 

 penultimate segment, the penultimate and the preceding one 

 nearly equal ; on the penultimate segment are a few short black 

 spines. 



Thorax shiny black clothed with metallic brassy flat scales of 

 two sizes, mostly spindle-shaped, with a patch of pale blue ones 

 at the base of the wings and a few rather short black spines ; 

 just behind the root of the wings are some large flat apple-green 

 scales. Prothoracic lobes clothed with flat mauve and pale blue 

 scales ; scutellurn black with small flat brassy, green and coppery 

 scales on the large mid lobe, dusky ones on the lateral lobes ; 

 boider-bristles brown ; metanotum dark brown ; pleurae yellowish- 

 brown with dense flat snowy white scales. 



Abdomen expanding apically, metallic, deep blue and violet 

 basal ly and extending to the last few apical segments which are 

 more brilliant, their bases with green and blue scales, their apical 

 portions with violet and coppery red, the apical segment and to 

 some extent the basal lobes of the genitalia with fiery red and 

 coppery scales ; no caudal tuft, but the two last segments have 

 short, dense, black lateral bristles ; on the first segment is a large 

 creamy lateral patch, there are also more or less prominent basal 



