252 A Monograph of Culicidae. 



mammilliform. Thorax with very narrow-curved scales, also the 

 scutellum ; metanotum nude. Wings with normal venation, the 

 scales on the apical area dense and large. Male unknown. 



This genus comes near Daniehia, Theob. (The Entomologist, 

 1904, p. 78), but differs in the head scales being more uniform in 

 arrangement, rounded apically, not truncated, and also in the 

 scales of the wing. 



Gnophodeomyia inornata. Theobald, (1905). 

 Journ. Econ. Biol. Vol. I., No. 1, p. 21 (1905). 



Head brown in some lights, greyish in others, palpi and 

 proboscis brown. Thorax light brown, unadorned ; pleurae 

 reddish to dull brown. Abdomen deep blackish-brown with 

 small basal lateral white spots. Legs deep brown • coxae, base 

 and under side of femora reddish-brown. Wings with brown 

 scales, not quite reaching to the apex of the body. Ungues 

 small, equal and simple in the female. 



9 . Head deep brown, clothed with flat scales with rounded 

 apices, which are dull brownish-grey in some lights, violet-brown 

 in others ; behind, forming a band partly across the nape, are 

 narrow-curved pale golden scales, and there are also numerous 

 black upright forked scales and a few black bristles in front. 

 Palpi brown with deep brown scales, short, apical segment 

 minute, penultimate large ; proboscis rather thin, clothed with 

 almost black scales and with scattered short pale hairs ; antennae 

 deep brown ; clypeus reddish-brown. 



Thorax brown, rich brown in some lights } brighter in certain 

 lights than in others, clothed with bronzy-brown narrow-curved 

 scales and with long black lateral chaetae. Scutellum paler than 

 the mesonotum, with narrow-curved bronzy-brown scales and six 

 posterior border-bristles to the mid lobe (in two groups), a bare 

 space between ; metanotum deep brown ; pleurae bright reddish- 

 brown. 



Abdomen clothed with violet-black scales and with small 

 basal lateral white patches ; posterior border-bristles pale, of 

 two sizes. 



Legs unhanded, deep brown ; coxae, base and under side 

 of femora reddish-brown. Ungues all small, equal and simple. 



Wings not quite reaching the apex of the abdomen, with 

 brown scales, costa darker ; fork-cells of moderate length, the 

 first sub-marginal longer but no narrower than the second 



