Genus Lophoceratomyia. 473 



Lophoceratomyia uniformis. Theobald (1905). 

 Journ. Bomb. Nat. Hist. Soc. Vol. XVI., p. 245 (1905). 



Head brown with a grey border around the eyes ; proboscis 

 deep brown, slightly swollen apically ; palpi deep brown. Thorax 

 tawny brown, pale at the sides ; pleurae grey, green, or pale 

 brown. Abdomen deep chocolate brown, unbanded ; venter dull 

 ochreous. Legs long, deep brown, except for pale coxae and 

 bases of femora. Wings transparent ; fork-cells small ; male 

 palpi brown, acuminate, longer than the proboscis. 



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

 and numerous upright black forked ones behind, becoming fewer 

 and browner near the front, thus covering most of the grey- 

 scaled head and giving it a brown appearance, except around the 

 eyes, where the grey scales only exist ; clypeus testaceous ; 

 proboscis black, swollen apically, about two-thirds the length of 

 the whole body, labella testaceous ■ palpi thin and rather long, 

 about one-fifth the length of the proboscis, black scaled ; 

 antennae brown with narrow pale bands and black verticillate 

 hairs. 



Thorax shiny brown, clothed with narrow-curved tawny 

 brown scales, which become much smaller and almost black just 

 before the scutellum, bristles long and black, scales at the sides 

 somewhat paler in certain lights ; scutellum pale brown with 

 small narrow-curved dark scales ; metanotum pale brown ; pleurae 

 pale grey, dull white or pale green, almost nude. Prothoracic 

 lobes small, nude, pale brown. 



Abdomen deep rich chocolate brown to dull brown ; no 

 banding or lateral spots ; border-bristles pale ; venter dull 

 ochreous. 



Legs deep brown, rather long, the coxae and bases of femora 

 grey ; ungues all equal and simple. 



Wings with the branches of the first sub-marginal cell and 

 the stem with rather long scales, those on the first long vein 

 typical, also the spiny upper costal border; other lateral vein- 

 scales may appear linear, but when flattened are much broader 

 than in a true Culex ; fork-cells short, the first sub-marginal 

 considerably longer and narrower than the second posterior \ its 

 base nearer the base of the wing, its stem about half the length 

 of the cell ; stem of the second posterior as long or longer 

 than the cell ; mid cross- vein longer than the supernumerary, 





