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banding, somewhat swollen basally ; proboscis deep brown ; 

 -antennae brown with dark bands and hairs, basal segment 

 ochreous. 



Legs with fore and mid ungues unequal, uniserrate ; hind 

 *equal and simple. 



Wings with short fork-cells, the first sub-marginal longer and 

 narrower than the second posterior, its base a little nearer the 

 base of the wing than that of the latter, its stem as long as the 

 cell ; stem of the second posterior longer than the cell ; posterior 

 cross- vein about its own length distant from the mid. 



Length. — 3 • 3 mm. 



Habitat. — Peradeniya and Maskeliya, Ceylon (E. E. Green). 



Time of capture. — February and April. 



Observations. — Described from a perfect female and male. It 

 is closely related to C. inornata, Theo., but can easily be separated 

 by the darker, larger head in the $ and by the base of the first 

 fork-cell being nearer the apex of the wing than that of the 

 second, and the thorax is also differently coloured. The male 

 palpi have the apical segment markedly longer than the 

 penultimate. 



Genus NEOMACLEAYA. nov. gen. 



Head clothed with flat scales all over except for a narrow 

 median double row of narrow-curved ones, no upright forked 

 scales ; palpi short in the female. Thorax clothed with narrow 

 curved scales, also the scutellum. Wings with short fork- cells, 

 lateral vein-scales long, rather thicker than in Culex. 



Closely allied to Macleaya, but there are no flat scales on the 

 scutellum, and, to Danielsia, but the head scales do not agree in 

 any way with those of the latter genus. 



Neomacleaya indica. n. sp. 



Head black with a narrow median creamy line ; eyes black 

 with a silvery edge near the head. Thorax deep brown, 

 uniformly clothed with rich brown scales. Abdomen deep brown, 

 with a basal white band to second segment, a white band near 

 the base on the third and fourth, white lateral spots (not quite 

 forming bands) on the remainder. Legs unhanded. Wings with 

 short fork-cells. 



? . Head deep brown, clothed with flat black scales with dull 



