Genus Leicesteria. 201 



marked species, the general ornamentation of the thorax and 

 legs being characteristic. I cannot be certain as to the exact 

 structure of the $ ungues, nor genitalia, which are hidden in 

 scales and hairs, and there was no second specimen of $ sent to* 

 dissect. 



Genus LEICESTERIA. Theobald. 



The Entomologist, Vol. XXXVII., p. 211 (Aug., 1904) ; Gen. Ins. Fam. 

 Culicid., p. 20 (1905), Theobald. 



Head covered with flat scales, upright forked scales, and a 

 row of spindle-shaped ones around the eyes. Mesothorax with 

 narrow- and broad-curved scales ; scutellum and prothoracic lobes 

 with flat scales. Palpi of the $ slender, no hair-tufts, longer 

 than proboscis ; of the ? half the length of the proboscis, com- 

 posed of four segments. Proboscis swollen apically. Wing scales 

 and venation much as in Stegomyia. 



This genus comes near Eretmapodites in appearance, but can 

 at once be told by the scales around the eyes and the great 

 length of the $ palpi. 



Geographical distribution of species, — A single species only 

 occurs. 



L. longipalpis, Leicester, The Entom., p. 211 (Aug., 1904) 

 (Kuala Lumpur). 



Leicesteria longipalpis. Leicester (1904). 

 The Entomologist, Vol. XXXVIL, p. 211 (1904). 



The following is the original description : — 



" Head black in the middle, creamy at the sides ; palpi half 

 the length of the proboscis, both black. Thorax yellowish-brown, 

 with bronze scales and a creamy line on each side as far as the 

 base of the wings. Abdomen with apical white lateral spots. 

 Legs unbanded. 



9 . Head black ; the vertex, occiput, and nape covered with 

 broad, flat, black scales ; along the orbital margin is a narrow 

 row of spindle-shaped creamy scales ; laterally, where the black 

 scales end, is a band of creamy scales and then black scales again. 

 There are a moderate number of black upright forked scales 

 confined to the nape. 



