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sight it appears like Schiner's Culex (Theobaldia) glaphyroptera, 

 which it resembles in the spotted wings and general colouration, 

 but can at once be told by the silvery-white flat scaled scutellum, 

 by the palpi having the apical segment only swollen and by the 

 different male genitalia which have been figured by Ficalbi (vide 

 Yol. I., p. 347, Mono. Culicid., 1901); the digitate process at 

 the apex of the basal lobe is absent and the clasper nearly 

 straight, not curved at the end. 



Genus MAILLOTIA. nov. gen 



Head clothed with rather broad, large curved-scaled, upright 

 forked scales and pyriform and flat lateral scales. 



Thorax clothed with large curved scales similar to those of the 

 head ; scutellum with short, rather broad, spindle-shaped scales. 



Wing scales dense ; lateral ones thin. 



The genus is near Culex, but is quite distinct, its peculiar 

 characters were noticed by Dr. Edmond Sergent, who suggested 

 the name under which it is described. 



Maillotia pilifera. n. sp. 



Head with creamy scales and black upright forked ones. 

 Proboscis long, unhanded. Thorax black, with golden-brown to 

 almost golden scales and showing dark lines ; scutellum with 

 paler scales. 



Abdomen black with prominent apical white bands, the band 

 on the second segment sending a triangular process into the 

 middle of the segment. Legs deep brown, unhanded. 



9 . Head black, clothed scantily with rather broad curved 

 creamy scales, small flat and pyriform dull creamy ones at the 

 sides, smaller pale creamy ones closely packed together around 

 the eyes, black upright forked scales in the middle, brown at the 

 sides. 



Proboscis/ black, long, swelling towards the apex. Palpi 

 short, dark brown, ochreous scales at the apex. Antennae deep 

 brown, basal segments with ochreous scales. 



Thorax black, with large curved creamy scales, paler in the 

 middle and in front than at the sides, where they have a brown 

 tinge, in certain lights appearing bright brown under the hand 



