Genus Mansonioides. 499 



Closely related to Mansonia but separated at once by the flat 

 scutellar scales. 



Mansonioides septem-guttata. n. sp. 



Head mottled golden and brown with a pale border around 

 the eyes. Thorax golden brown with seven silvery spots and 

 silvery scutellum. Abdomen brown with scattered ochreous 

 scales, with lateral patches and many white scales over apex. 

 Legs much banded with yellowish brown, deep brown and white. 

 Wings mottled with brown and yellow scales. 



5 . Head brown, clothed with narrow-curved pale golden 

 scales, silvery white ones around the eyes, flat creamy lateral 

 ones and brown upright forked scales. Palpi clothed with 

 ochreous scales black at their apices, apex of palps with dense 

 white scales and a few lower down, also some short black chaetae : 

 proboscis ochreous with brown scales at the base and apex ; 

 antennae banded with dark and yellowish brown, second segment 

 with many flat dusky scales. 



Thorax bright and dark brown, clothed with narrow-curved 

 scales, with seven round silvery spots, two in front, two about the 

 middle of the mesonotum, one at the base of each wing and 

 another between these, the last three not so distinct as the two 

 anterior pairs ; scutellum with flat silvery scales to the median 

 lobe, narrow-curved silvery ones to the lateral lobes ; four brown 

 chaetae to posterior border of the mid lobe ; metanotuni brown : 

 pleurae ochreous with scattered creamy scales and a large spot 

 beneath the wing. 



Abdomen clothed with large brown scales, with lateral snow- 

 white patches situated medianally, the last two or three segments 

 with many pale ochreous or white scales ; basal segments w r ith 

 pale ochreous scales and pallid hairs. 



Legs ochreous, clothed with ochreous scales tipped with black, 

 giving a mottled appearance and all the segments banded with 

 snow white ; fore femora with five white bands and white apex, 

 fore tibiae with five white bands and white apex, first fore tarsal 

 with median white band, next two tarsals with basal white bands : 

 mid and hind femora aa the fore ; mid tibiae with live white 

 bands, apex unhanded and with two or more small white spots 

 between the bands, first tarsal with basal and median band, the 

 next two tarsals with basal white bands ; hind tibiae with four 

 white bands, basal two small ; first tarsal as in mid legs, all the 

 tarsals with basal white bands : ungues equal and simple. 



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