242 A Monogragh of Culicidae. 



bare patch. On either side there are a few narrow white scales. 

 The rest of the mesonotum is clad with bronzy narrow-curved 

 scales. There is a row of bristles along the anterior margin of 

 the mesonotum and over the roots of the wings. 



Scutellum yellowish-brown ; central lobe clad with white and 

 black narrow-curved scales ; lateral lobes with white curved scales ; 

 border-bristles ochraceous. Metanotum dark brown. 



Wings of Culex type, clad with dark brown scales ; the 

 median scales rather long and narrow, the lateral scales long 

 and narrow with square ends. Fork-cells moderately long ; first 

 sub-marginal longer but scarcely narrower than the second 

 posterior, its base nearer the base of the wing ; stem about two- 

 thirds the length of the cell. Supernumerary and mid cross- 

 veins meet at an angle. Posterior cross-vein about three times 

 its own length from the mid cross-vein ; fringe scales black. 



Pleurae with seven patches of silvery-white broad scales 

 arranged in two rows of three and one patch above the middle 

 coxae. 



Metanotum dark umber brown. 



Legs with the coxae creamy, fore and mid legs pale yellowish, 

 covered with black spatulate scales, except the under surface of 

 the femora, which shows a line of white scales, the under side of 

 the base of the tibia, the apex of the tibia, which is ringed with 

 creamy yellow scales in the fore leg and the base of the first 

 tarsal, and the second tarsal segment which in both legs show a 

 white band ; hind femora covered with black scales ; a ring of 

 white scales about one-third of the total length, extends around 

 the whole circumference save for a narrow line on the dorsum ; 

 on the under surface of the apex some creamy yellow scales and 

 a minute ring of the same placed just before the apex. Knee 

 spot and under surface of tibia white scaled ; a broad white 

 band at the base of the first and three following tarsal 

 segments. Fore and mid ungues equal and uniserrated. There 

 are some pale golden bristles on all the tibiae. 



Abdomen covered with black scales, with basal white bands 

 which expand laterally into broad spots, especially large on the 

 seventh and eighth segments. Segments beneath, brown scaled, 

 basally white banded. 



Length. — 4*5 mm. 



<£. Head black, frosted, clad almost entirely with broad 

 flat white scales, parted in the centre over the occiput, leaving 

 a bare line on the black head, showing broadest in front ; 



