^arti-coloured scales, with long golden hairs are inserted on either side, 
intepenultimate joint clad with white, golden and parti-coloured scales 
irregularly mixed. The ungues on the fore leg are markedly unequal the 
larger unguis being enormous and having two teeth while the small unguis 
is simple; on the mid leg the larger unguis is bi-serrate but the smaller 
unguis also bears a tooth. The ungues of the hind leg are simple and 
very small. In all other respects the male resembles the female. 
Occttrrence. —Described from one male and female bred from larvae taken 
in marshy ground near a patch of jungle near Kuala Lumpur. 
Remarks. —Evidently a very rare species here as no specimen has before 
been described from the Malay Peninsula and even in Africa it does not 
seem common as no male has been obtained or at least there is no des¬ 
cription of the male. I only obtained two larvae and was very fortunate 
to obtain a specimen of each sex. The only point Theobald has neglected 
to mention is the curious fact that the hind ungues in the female are as 
large as those on the fore and mid legs and they also bear a tooth. This 
is a most unusual condition in a mosquito and is woithy of special notice. 
In all other respects my description agrees with Theobald except the 
presence of the dark grey lines and patches on the mesonotum. 
Genus 5. — Ekrinomyia. — nov. gen. 
Head with narrow-curved scales above, spatulate scales at the sides 
and upright scales over the whole upper and lateral surfaces. Eemale palpi 
fully one-third the length of the proboscis, male palpi about as long as the 
proboscis, the last two joints not very hairy. W ings with spots of pigment, 
posterior cross vein nearer the apex of the wing than the mid. Thorax and 
scutellum with narrow-curved scales. Abdomen bent in a half-circle. 
Legs very long. Larva carnivorous. 
Remarks .—This mosquito presents so many points of difference from 
culex and allied genera and so many points of resemblance to Mucidus that 
I have placed it in a separate genus next to the last-named. The position 
of the posterior cross-vein is so very rare in Culicidae being present only in 
Me^arhinina and Mucidus that I regard it quite of generic importance. 
The larva comes very near that of the Megarhines which is another 
mportant character. I have only one species at present. 
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Ekrinomyia Aureostriata. n. sp. 
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Head covered with brilliant golden-yellow scales. Proboscis and palpi 
yellow-scaled with a few black scales interspersed. Thorax dark purple- 
brown with a few golden scales in front and behind. Abdomen purple- 
brown spotted with yellow especially towards the apex. Tibiae and thighs 
mottled brown and yellow. Farsi basally banded last hind tarsal joint 
canary-yellow. Wings lightly scaled with brown and yellow scales 
markedly pigmented at the cross veins. 
Female Head .—Dark brown, clad above thickly with rather long narrow r - 
curved golden-yellow scales and at the sides w r ith long strap-shaped golden 
scales. Numerous long narrow golden-brown upright forked scales are 
inserted on the upper surface extending from the nape forward to the vertex 
