578 A Monograph of Culicidae. 



Ficalbia nigripes. Theobald (1905). 



Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Ser. 7, Vol. XV., February 1905, 



p. 199. 



Head black. Thorax pale bright yellowish-brown, with two 

 parallel dark lines behind. Abdomen deep brown, with narrow 

 pale basal bands. Legs, antennae, palpi and proboscis deep 

 blackish-brown. Wings with pale scaled veins and with deep 

 brown costa. 



<J . Head clothed with flat deep black scales and black 

 upright forked scales. Antennae deep blackish-brown, with 

 paler dusky bands and deep brown plume-hairs Proboscis deep 

 blackish-brown, swollen apically ; palpi small ; deep brown. 



Thorax pale brown, clothed with long narrow-curved pale 

 dull yellowish scales, except for two paralled bare lines, and 

 with two broad lines of long narrow-curved black scales on each 

 side of the bare space in front of the scutellum and extending 

 past it ; two rows of long black bristles and numerous black ones 

 over the roots of the wings ; scutellum clothed with flat black 

 scales and with brown border-bristles ; metanotum deep brown ; 

 pleurae pale ochreous. 



Abdomen deep blackish brown, with white basal bands and 

 brown lateral hairs. 



Legs deep blackish brown j the coxae pale ochreous. 



Wings with brown scales ; fork-cells short, of nearly equal 

 length ; base of the first sub-marginal cell nearer the apex of 

 the wing than that of the second posterior, its stem about one 

 and a half times the length of the cell ; stem of the second 

 posterior not quite one and a half times the length of the cell ; 

 posterior cross- vein sloping backwards, not quite its own length 

 distant from the mid vein ; median vein-scales in single line ; 

 lateral vein scales large and bluntly lanceolate, existing on the 

 second, third, and branches of the fourth veins only, narrower 

 ones on part of the first long vein, those on the first and subcostal 

 short and spatulate, like those forming the median vein-scales, 

 only in two rows ; costa with an inner row of short spatulate 

 scales, and the outer border with deep brown spiney ones ; the 

 sixth vein is much curved apically. 



Length. — 2*8 mm. 



Time of appearance. — December. 



Habitat. — Kortright, Freetown, Sierra Leone, 1200 feet 

 (Major F. Smith, D.S.O., R.A.M.C.). 



