Genus Leiicomyia. o75 



Claspers of genitalia short, thick, curved, swollen on the 

 apical half just after the curve, terminal segment shaped like a 

 haltere ; lateral process of basal lobe with large spines and a 

 foliate plate ; harpes and harpogones short, thick, curved. 



Length. — 5 mm. 



Habitat. — India (Major Aldrich) ; Sarawak (Dr. Barker). 



Observations. — This variety resembles the type in general 

 appearance, but the abdomen resembles that of variety cuneata, 

 Theob. It can at once be told by the two very marked brown 

 spots on the pale area of the thorax. 



The $ genitalia resemble Culex piplens and C. fatigans, but 

 can at once be told by the broader claspers found in this genus. 



Leucomyia pleoepennis. n. sp. 



Head and greater part of thorax covered with silvery-grey 

 scales, back of thorax darker, sending two small dark projections 

 forwards ; palpi deep brown ; proboscis banded. Abdomen brown 

 with a median grey line and small pale apical lateral spots. Legs 

 brown with narrow basal white bands. Wings with some of the 

 veins dark brown, others pale. 



Somewhat resembling C. gelidus, Theob. 



9 . Head deep brown, clothed with narrow-curved grey 

 scales and grey upright forked scales and flat lateral scales ; 

 palpi small, deep brown ; proboscis deep brown with a broad 

 median pale creamy band ; antennae deep brown, the basal 

 segment and base of the second segment testaceous. 



Thorax deep brown, clothed with narrow-curved silvery grey 

 scales for about three-fourths of its length and sending a narrow 

 lateral line of similar coloured scales down to the scutellum, the 

 posterior one-fourth clothed with very small brownish scales which 

 spread anteriorly into the pale area as two square dark patches 

 following the lines of chaetae and separating a median grey- 

 scaled area from the thin grey lateral lines ; chaetae brown 

 behind, black in front, very prominent ; scutellum brown with 

 narrow-curved grey scales and five golden-brown posterior border- 

 bristles to the mid lobe ; metanotum deep brown. 



Abdomen brown, basal segment light ochreous, with a median 

 patch of greyish scales and pallid hairs ; the second to seventh 

 segments with a median creamy stripe, broadening out basally 

 on each segment and with small pale apical lateral spots, in the 

 seventh segment they are not quite apical, eighth segment with 



