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brown, basal joint bright yellowish, and also the base of the 
next joint, remainder faintly banded ; palpi yellowish, with a 
few blackish scales ; proboscis ochraceous, with a broad black 
band near the apex, tip yellowish, and a few black scales at the 
base. Thorax brown, with a purplish-brown tinge, covered 
with golden-brown scales in the centre, more or less arranged 
in rows, on each side a broad stripe of whitish scales, a patch 
of similarly coloured ones posteriorly ; sides of the mesonotum 
with golden scales, and on each side, towards the scutellum, 
a large roundish bare dark spot (this does not always appear 
prominently) ; scutellum chestnut-brown with purplish-brown 
reflections, with scattered white scales and a border of bright 
brown bristles, seven bristles on the mid lobe and five on each 
side : metanotum brown ; pleura? with two patches of white 
scales. Abdomen covered with dark purplish-brown scales, 
with patches of white and yellow scales laterally, the white 
on the posterior border of the segments ; a few ochraceous 
patches on the dorsum ; posterior borders paler, with golden 
hairs, the last few segments when denuded testaceous ; venter 
with white and ochraceous scales on a dark ground. Legs with 
the femora yellowish, mottled with dark scales and patches of 
white, no distinct banding ; anterior tibia? dark in front, with 
about seven white spots ; posterior tibiae with five white and 
six dark bars in front, yellowish beneath ; metatarsi of all the 
legs pale at the base and banded white in the middle ; the first 
two tarsal joints of the fore and mid legs basally white ; all 
basalh" banded in the hind legs ; ungues simple. Wings mottled 
with dusky and pale creamy broad scales ; posterior border 
with dark and light basal scales ; border scales small ; fringe 
dark ; posterior cross-vein about twice its own length distant 
from the mid cross- vein ; the base of the fork of the second 
posterior cell shghtly nearer the base of the wing than that 
of the first sub -marginal ; the cells of about equal width, the 
latter slightly the longer. Halteres with a pale stem and dark 
knob. 
Length, 4.5 to 5 mm. 
Habitat : Travancore, S. India (S. P. James) ; Taiping, 
Perak (Wra}^) ; South Queensland (Bancroft) ; Central Africa 
(Moffat, Gray and others) ; Lagos (Strachan) ; Ceylon (E. E. 
Green) ; Algeria (Chaudoye) ; Natal (Moir). One of the most 
abundant Central African Culices, occurring in numbers around 
the Albert and Victoria Nyanzas. It is the most common form 
at Entebbe and along the lake-shore in LTganda and Busoga, 
writes Dr. Low. It occurs in swamp and forest, and according 
to Br. Moffatt, bites there severely. In Natal it is most trouble- 
some during rains (Moir). 
New localities : Philippine Islands (Miss Ludlow) ; New 
Guinea (Bir6) ; Ivory Coast (Blanchard and Dye) ; Madagascar, 
(Ventrillon and Blanchard). 
