532 A Monograph of Culicidae. 



Thorax deep brown, with small reddish golden narrow-curved 

 scales, brown pleurae with snowy white puncta. 



Abdomen deep brown, with basal white curved bands and 

 basal white lateral spots. 



Legs deep brown, unhanded ; white femoral and tibial apical 

 spots, and traces of a very fine indistinct white line on femora 

 and tibiae. 



J . Head deep brown, with narrow-curved grey scales, 

 somewhat largest in the middle of the head, and black upright 

 forked scales ; small flat white lateral scales and a row of rather 

 long and prominent deep brown bristles projecting from the front 

 of the head, those of each side pointing inwards ; clypeus and 

 proboscis deep black ; palpi thin, rather irregular in form and 

 clothed with black and white scales. 



Thorax deep brown, clothed with narrow-curved reddish 

 golden scales, some grey ones in front near the head, another 

 small patch in front of the roots of the wings, pale ones over the 

 roots and before the scutellum ; scutellum with pale dull creamy 

 curved scales, with two series of border-bristles, the larger deep 

 brown, the smaller pale golden ; prothoracic lobes with narrow- 

 curved pale scales and some brown chaetae ; pleurae deep brown, 

 with patches of flat pointed white scales and short golden bristles 

 here and there. 



Abdomen deep orange-yellow, clothed with deep blackish 

 brown scales with violet reflections and with basal white curved 

 bands, those of the second, third, and fourth segments being in 

 the form of almost median curved spots ; all the segments with 

 basal white lateral spots ; border-bristles small and pallid, and 

 many pale hairs at the sides of the body. 



Legs deep black, apices of femora and tibiae with a white 



Fig. 24 1 . 

 Wing of Heptaphlebomyia simplex, y. Theobald. 



spot, and on both a rather indistinct white line beneath ; ungues 

 small, equal and simple. 



