516 A Monograph of Culicidae. 



Abdomen deep violet brown, with basal golden yellow bands, 

 yellow basal lateral spots, and apical lateral more dorsal spots of 

 yellow, which become larger towards the end of the abdomen, 

 and on the last two segments unite to form broad yellow 

 apical bands. 



Legs brown, with coppery and yellowish reflections and basal 

 and apical pale bands, last segment of hind legs pale yellowish. 

 Wings tinged with yellowish brown and dense brown scales. 



J . Head small, brown, with small narrow-curved pale 

 creamy scales, bright brown upright forked scales in the middle, 

 black at the sides, and flat creamy ones laterally. Eyes very 

 large, meeting and apparently fused in the middle, silvery with 

 a black patch on each side at head border ; proboscis brown with 

 a broad golden yellow band in the middle, with short hairs all 



Fig. 236. 

 Head and haltere of Oculcomyia xarawaki. 9- n« sp. 



along its length, dark on the dark areas, yellow on the pale ; 

 palpi short, uniformly thick with black scales, except at the 

 apex, where they are dull, creamy, and very bristly ; antennae 

 brown, basal segment testaceous on the outer side, dark on the 

 inner, with a row of semi-transparent outstanding flat scales on 

 the summit of the inner border. 



Thorax deep shiny black, with narrow-curved bronzy brown 

 scales and some patches of creamy ones, dense brown chaetae 

 over the roots of the wings; scutellum brown, with dark and 

 pale narrow-curved scales (?) and numerous brown border-bristles ; 

 inctanotum brown and deep brown; pleurae brown and grey. 



Abdomen brown, clothed with deep violet scales, the segments 

 with basal yellow bands, basal lateral yellow spots ; the second 

 has a trace of apical dorsal yellow spots, the third to the sixth 

 each have them, more prominent in the sixth, they nearly meet 

 to form an apical band, the seventh and eighth have distinct 



