140 A Monograph of Gulieidae. 



brown ; plume hairs very dark ; basal segment with line white tomentum, 

 first segment of flagellum long, densely scaled, the scales iridescent purple 

 and white ; proboscis and palpi black, a few iridescent scales on the first 

 segment of latter, last segment twice as long as the penultimate and 

 acuminate ; eyes blue. Thorax dark brown, densely covered with scales 

 which show peacock blues and greens all over the dorsum, almost bluish 

 white laterally ; scutellum coloured as the mesonotum, the lateral lobes 

 paler than the mid ; prothoracic lobes scaled as the mesonotum ; pleurae 

 dark brown with dense white scales; metanotum dark brown. Abdomen 

 dark, showing blue-^reen iridescence. First segment with a brown 

 median spot, light blue sub-median and white lateral spots; border 

 bristles very small, the sides with dense white hairs which connect with 

 the dark blackish-brown caudal tuft. Traces of small white lateral spots 

 on some of the segments. Tenter dark. Legs with coxae densely white 

 scaled. Hind femora dark blue dorsally, ventrally white ; tibiae dark blue ; 

 first tarsals dark ; second tarsal basally white banded, tarsals unhanded, 

 showing brilliant purple reflections ; ungues equal, simple, rather straight : 

 mid legs all dark except for a pale band at base of the first tarsal and 



nd tarsal, often scarcely perceptible ; fore legs all dark ; fore and mid 

 ungues large, unequal, the larger uniserrated. 



Wings sparsely scaled; scales on costa blue and iridescent. First 

 sub-marginal cell about one-half the width of the second posterior; stems 

 very long, in the former nearly three times the length of the cell. Super- 

 numerary cross-vein nearly the length of the mid and more than four 

 times its length exterior to it : posterior cross-vein nearly twice as long 

 as the mid, which it meets. 



Length. — 11 mm. 



Llabitat. — Salog, Guimaras Island, Philippine Islands." 



Observations. — Described by Miss Ludlow from a perfect <J 

 bred by Dr. L. T. Le Wald, U.S. Army, from larvae taken on 

 April 1st, and hatched April 10th. The caudal tuft should at 

 once separate it from T. immisericors and T. apeciomi. 



It is pmbably a Toxorhynchib 



Qitob TOXORHYNCHITES. Theobald. 



Mono. Culicid. L, p. 244 (1001), and III., p. 119 (1903), Theobald ; Handbk. 

 GtastB, 2nd ed., p. 278 (19 b; Genera Ins. Fam. Culicid., p. 13 



(1905), Theobald; Lea Mow*., p. 229 (1905), Blanchard. 



Two new species have been added to this genus since the 

 H- of Vol. III. and Mr. Ernest Green has worked out the life- 

 history of Tn.rnrhi/nrhites mmiiericors, Walker, a precis ci which 

 is given here under the heading of that species. 



