Genus Reedomyia. 



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Fore and mid ungues unequal, both uniserrate and hairy on 

 their basal halves. 



Length. — 4 * 5 mm. 



Habitat — India (Capt. James, I.M.S.). 



Observations. — Described from a perfect female. The $ is 

 described here for the first time. In general appearance it 

 resembles a typical Culex of the 

 pipiens group. It is closely allied 

 to Reedomyia pampangensis (Lud- 

 low), found at Angeles, Pampanga, 

 Luzon, Philippine Islands, but can 

 at once be told by the uniform 

 coloured thorax, which in pam- 

 pangensis is ornamented with pale 

 yellow and dark bronzy-brown 



scales and slightly different venation. The flat white scales 

 of the scutellum in both species are very marked. The male 

 genitalia are peculiar. 



Fig. 79. 



Male fore ungues of Reedomyia 

 niveoscutella. Theobald. 



Reedomyia alboscutella. Theobald (1905). 

 Lepidotomyia alboscutellata. Theobald. 

 Ann. Mus. Nat. Hung. III., p. 80 (1905). 



Head brown, with golden and brown scales ; proboscis and 

 palpi deep brown. Thorax bright brown with small scattered 

 bronzy scales and with four creamy-scaled round spots ; scu- 

 tellum densely silvery-white scaled ; pleurae pale brown with 

 white spots. Abdomen deep brown, unhanded ; pale ventrally. 

 Legs deep brown, apices of mid and hind femora with a silvery- 

 white spot. Wings with deep brown scaled veins. 



? . Head brown, with narrow-curved, golden-brown scales 

 over the greater part, some small flat creamy ones at the sides ; 

 over the occiput numerous thin upright forked scales ; black 

 bristles projecting forwards, especially two prominent ones 

 between the eyes, Clypeus, proboscis and palpi brown ; 

 antennae brown, the basal segment testaceous. 



Thorax bright reddish-brown, with four small golden-scaled 

 spots, two close to the head and with numerous scattered small 

 narrow-curved bronzy scales, bristles black ; scutellum densely 

 clothed with flat silvery-white scales and with black border- 

 bristles \ metanotum brown ; pleurae bright brown with three 

 silvery-white spots, composed of flat scales. 



