250 A Monograph of Culicidae. 



Lepidotomyia magna. Theobald, (1905). 

 Genera Ins. Fam. Culicidae, p. 22 (1905). 



Head black with a narrow white eye border and a few pale 

 median scales ; palpi of ? rather long and black ; proboscis 

 black. Thorax white in front, forming a solid white W, a small 

 white triangular spot over the base of wings and white lateral 

 spots. Abdomen black with basal white lateral spots. Fore legs 

 black with a white apical tibial spot ; mid legs with an apical 

 tibial spot, first tarsals white with a black band towards apical 

 half, apex of second tarsal and remainder black ; hind legs with 

 base and apex of femora white, tibiae black, base and apex of 

 first tarsals with white bands, base of second tarsal with white 

 band and a very minute one to second segment. Wings normal. 



9 . Head black clothed with loose flat scales, black except 

 around the inner border of the eyes where they are white and 

 spindle-shaped, in the middle of the head are some flattish creamy 

 scales in front, almost white, and over the whole numerous brown 

 upright forked scales and narrow-curved scales behind ; proboscis 

 short, not more than half the length of the body, deep black and 

 scaly. Palpi black scaled, rather long, the apical segment 

 apparently very long (jointing hidden in scales). Antennae deep 

 brown, the inter nodes pale. 



Thorax black, the front with a solid W-shaped silky-white 

 area of closely applied long scales, remainder black scaled, except 

 a small white wedge-shaped area in front of the wings \ pleurae 

 with distinct white puncta. 



Scutellum brown with black narrow-curved scales and a few 

 white ones near the base, numerous long golden-brown border- 

 bristles, which with those on the back of the mesonotum form a 

 conspicuous mass. 



Abdomen black with black scales and with lateral basal white 

 patches, the apical segment with a basal white band ; the first 

 segment with numerous pale golden hairs and rather dense pale 

 golden border-bristles, other segments with golden border-bristles 

 but fewer in number. 



Wings with typical brown scales, fork-cells short, the first sub- 

 marginal 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 cell, bases of the fork-cells nearly level. 



Halteres ferruginous with darker knobs. 



