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)r a patch of dark scales on the fourth segment. Last segment fringed 
nth pale golden hairs. 
Male Head .—A deep depression in the middle line. The scaling is 
luch as in the female. Antennae, banded brown and white, plumes black; 
asal joint black, second joint scaled with numerous broad golden scales, 
W o last joints dark and elongated. Palpi three-jointed, first joint with 
swollen base having the appearance of a joint constricted in the middle, 
econd very long, scaled with golden scales except at the apex where there 
5 a narrow band of purple scales, and in the middle there is also a band 
if purple scales and towards the base there are on the upper surface purple 
cales. Proboscis purple scaled with green scales at the angle. 
Thorax .—As in the female. Legs, coxae and under sides of femora 
;old scaled, knee spots peacock-blue or creamy in some lights, the 
emaining parts of legs purple scaled : no banding. Ungues, fore and mid 
inequal, larger uniserrate. Abdomen as in female. 
Occurrence .—Bred from larvae found in bamboos. 
Remarks .—This mosquito and the next change so much when dry that 
hey are hardly recognizable from the description. The abdomen has 
become a dingy black in many cases owing to the colours being altered by 
he grease in the body. When fresh the colours are exceedingly brilliant 
:he thorax being bright emerald-green, while the abdomen appears rich rose- 
Durple with peacock-blue bands. 
Toxorhynchites Metallicus.— Theobald. 
This is a very handsome mosquito with a brilliant metallic-green thorax 
and bright rose-purple abdomen, banded with honey-yellow. In the male 
the legs are unbanded. 
Female Head .—Black : there is a narrow band of creamy-yellow scales 
along the orbital margin which laterally broadens into a distinct patch ; the 
rest of the upper surface of head is covered with broad spatulate scales 
which vary in colour, if looked at from behind the central patch looks bronze- 
green and the scales at the sides blue-green ; in one specimen the whole 
patch is a deep rich blue, while the marginal scales are silvery. Immediately 
above the occipital foramen are a few fawn-coloured upright scales scarcely 
notched. A few small bristles are placed on the vertex which look black or 
purple or even golden-brown according to the light. Basal joint of antenna, 
black, with a silvery tomentum, naked, save for a few short white hairs, 
second joint scarcely swollen light yellow in colour with a few black 
spatulate scales on its upper face, succeeding joints, black with white down; 
verticillate hairs, black. Clypeus black with silvery tomentum notched on 
either side for the insertion of the palpi which are short, not more than 
one-sixth the length of the proboscis, and four-jointed ; last joint small and 
nipple like, first two joints with golden scales at the sides and beneath, the 
two last joints are covered with scales which are coppery or rose-purple 
according to the angle the light strikes them. The proboscis is long and 
swollen at the base, and clad with purple or coppery scales. 
Thorax .—Prothoracic lobes small, thickly covered with broad flat 
racquet-shaped scales of a creamy-yellow colour, and with a row of light 
brown bristles. Mesonotum, black, thickly clad with fusiform flat scales 
