244 A Monograph of Culicidae. 



Danielsia wellmanii. Theobald, (1905). 

 The Entomologist, Vol. XXXIX., p. 103 (1905). 



Head creamy white, with two median black spots. Palpi 

 and proboscis brown. Thorax deep brown, with a broad creamy 

 area on each side, expanding in front and passing around the 

 front of the mesonotum, and with a short creamy median line 

 arising from the pale anterior area ; numerous golden-brown 

 bristles posteriorly. Abdomen black with basal white lateral 

 spots on basal segments, becoming median on the apical ones. 

 Legs deep brown, front pair unhanded, mid and hind with a 

 broad basal pale band to the first and second tarsal segments. 



$ . Head deep brown, with rather loosely applied flat creamy 

 scales, with two large patches of flat dark scales above, and with 

 creamy narrow-curved scales behind. Clypeus and proboscis 

 black ; palpi rather long, black ; antennae black, with indistinct 

 narrow grey bands. 



Thorax black clothed with narrow-curved bronzy-brown scales, 

 with a broad creamy-scaled area on each side, which expands 

 anteriorly, and which meets around the front and sends a narrow 

 short median line of creamy scales into the brown area ; a few 

 pale scales in front of the scutellum and numerous golden-brown 

 bristles on the roots of the wings ; prothoracic lobes with small 

 flat creamy scales ; scutellum with rather broad narrow-curved 

 scales, narrowest on the lateral lobes ; border-bristles bright 

 golden-brown ; mesonotum black ; pleurae with white puncta. 



Abdomen black, with deep violet reflections ; the basal 

 segments with basal white lateral spots, which become median 

 on the last two or three segments, the latter having a few white 

 scales extending on to the dorsum and in the middle, but not 

 forming bands ; border-bristles small, pale golden. Venter with 

 basal white bands. 



Legs deep blackish-brown, the front pair with only a faint 

 trace of a pale band at the base of the first tarsal ; the mid and 

 hind with a broad white basal band to the first and second 

 tarsals ; fore and mid femora white beneath and at base ; base 

 of hind femora white and knee spot white. Ungues uniserrated, 

 the tooth long. 



Wings with the first sub-marginal cell longer and narrower 

 than the second posterior cell, its stem nearly two-thirds the 

 length of the cell ; stem of the second posterior as long as the 



