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and a narrow creamy band at the apex; first tarsal joint with creamy ring 
in the centre and at the apex, second tarsal with a narrow black band at 
the apex, and beyond this point, the rest of the tarsus, creamy-white, i.e., 
nearly the whole of the last three joints. The hind metatarsus is longer 
than the tibia. 
Abdomen. —Black, with numerous hairs on all the segments; the eighth 
segment densely clad with golden hairs and possibly a few scales, but the 
specimen is a little mouldy and I cannot clearly make out the scales. 
Occurrence .— Described from one female taken by Dr. Watson in the 
jungle a few miles from Klang. 
Remarks .—A very distinct and easily recognised species, and the presence 
of scales on the mesonotum clearly point to its position in this genus. The 
pure white hind tarsus distinguish it from all other Malayan species except 
L N. nivipes, and with that it could not be confused. 
Genus 6.— Nyssorhyncus.— Blanchard. 
Thorax, with narrow-curved and spindle-shaped scales. Abdomen, with 
ventral scales and also scales on the apical segments and sometimes dorsal 
\\ apical patches. Wing scales bluntly lanceolate, short, some more elongate 
and narrow; palpi, densely scaled. Legs banded and spotted with white, 
the hind tarsi usually with one or more of the terminal joints pure white. 
Remarks .—Four species of this genus occur in this Peninsula. I have 
never taken N. Maculatus, but specimens of this mosquito have been caught 
in Taiping. The generic characters are well marked in all the species. 
Nyssorhyncus Karwari. — James. 
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Thorax, clad with narrow-curved white scales. Palpi, with four white 
bands. Hind legs, with broad white bands on the base of the metatarsus 
first two tarsal joints, base and apex of third tarsal joint, the fourth being 
pure white. Femora and tibia? unspotted. 
Head. —Slate-grey, with a small crescentic black patch on either side, 
low down a tuft of long silky white hair-like scales on the vertex, behind 
these some spindle-shaped white curved scales and a few white narrow- 
curved scales running for a short distance along the orbital margins, behind 
these a few white upright scales which extend laterally to the genae and 
backwards to the occipital foramen. There are no flat lateral scales, though 
in the dry specimen some of the white upright scales may come to lie close 
to the head and give an appearance of lateral scales. Orbital bristles, black. 
Basal joint of antenna, dark brown, with a ring of small white scales whic 
is incomplete superiorly. This joint is small and seems to be set upon 
a small projecting basal piece from which it is marked off by a groove ’ 
second joint thickly clad with white narrow spindle-shaped scales which are 
most numerous on the internal and superior faces. At the apex of the joint 
on its upper face are a few long white hair-like scales. Remaining joints, 
muddy-brown clad with numerous short silky white hairs, \erticillate hairs 
short.and silky white. Clypeus, dark brown and nude. Palpi, black scaled 
with creamy bands; there is one band in the middle of the second joint ana 
another at its apex, the penultimate joint is black scaled on its basal thud and 
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