Abdomen as in the female. 
Occurrence. —Described from a series bred from larvae taken in hillside 
reams in jungle. 
Remarks.—A very slender and fragile mosquito, entirely sylvan and 
apparently oreeding only in jungle streams. The eggs are probably 
-posited in the swampy pools in the jungle forming the head-water of 
Liy hillside stream, and from here they may be carried down in heavy ram 
lowers into the streams fed by such swampy areas, and thus the larvae get 
ito the rock pools in the course of such streams and even to the foot of the 
ills. This species is widely distributed in the Peninsula, but is not found 
1 stagnant water or in water in the open. This anopheline is of ^ery 
Peak flight and probably quite unable to live in the open subject to the 
uffetings of stormy winds; it stands like a culex and to the naked eye looks 
mch more like a culex, than an anopheles. It is a blood-sucker, it will not 
reed in captivity, and the larvae, unless mature, usually die. 
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Genus 2. —Lophoscelomyia. — Theobald . 
Head, with upright forked scales and some narrow curved ones on the 
ertex in front; thorax and scutellum clad with hairs and a tuft of long 
arrow scales on the anterior margin of mesonotum ; abdomen with hairs 
>nly on all the segments but the two last, which are clad with lanceolate 
cales. Hind legs with a dense tuft of long erect clavate scales on both 
ides of the femorotibial joint. \\ ings, with blunt lanceolate scales. 
Remarks. —This genus is represented by one species which breeds only 
n bamboos. 
Lophoscelomyia Asiatica. — Theobald . 
A small anopheline with the apices of the hind femora scaled with a tuft 
>f long black scales succeeded by a tuft of long white, easily seen as a sort 
if ruff with the naked eye. 
Head. —Black, frosted, when dry dark brown; the scales are arranged 
n tufts and bare places are left between, and as it is rather lighter along 
he orbital margins it appears under a hand lens to have a narrow white 
i nargin to the eyes; on the vertex is a tuft of long silky hair-like scales 
mth a double curve on them which projects well forward, behind these are 
i few white narrow curved scales placed on either side of a bare black line 
md extending but a small way back and laterally for a short distance down 
:he orbital margins, and behind these are some flat-topped vhite upngit 
scales which merge behind into a dense mass of black (when dry, brow n) 
jpright scales extending laterally over the occiput to just short of the eyes 
from which they are separated by a bare space. I can perceive no flat 
scales anywhere. There are a few black narrow-curved scales following the 
white along the orbital margin. The eyes are a metallic bronze-green. 
Basal joint of antenna dusky, its depression brown, with some rather broad 
spindle-shaped white scales on its inner face, second joint light brown, some 
black spindle-shaped scales on its inner face, succeeding joints similar, but 
without scales; all joints, except basal, covered with short white hair , 
verticillate, pale brown with pallid tips. Palpi, equal in length to proboscis, 
