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mesonotum at the base of the seutellum there is a patch of large spatula 
ochraceous scales always present in the male. Seutellum brown clad wil 
large spatulate scales blue-black or purple-bronze in colour and sometime 
there are a few pale ochraceous scales on the central lobe. Pleurae dar 
brown with patches of silvery spatulate scales. Wings dark brown wit 
dark brown scales, the lateral scales are long with parallel sides ar 
rounded ends a shape I have called somewhat paradoxically broadly linea 
Fork cells rather long, the first a little longer and narrower than tl 
second, its base nearer the apex of the wing, its stem two-thirds the length . 
the cell, posterior cross vein longer than the median, distant from it less tha 
its own length; third long vein carried past the cross veins as an unscale 
vein to the base of the wing. Coxae light brown with silvery scales; foi 
and mid femora with dark purple-black scales above and laterally an 
sil\ ery scales beneath; hind femora silvery beneath and at the sides; apict 
of femora with a few white scales; tibiae, metatarsi and tarsi of a 
egs clad with purple-black scales; ungues on fore and mid legs un 
serrate. 
Abdomen .—Clad above with black scales and on the venter with silver 
scales ; at the base of each segment after the first is a large white pate 
triangular in shape with the apex backwards one side of the trian<d 
corresponding with line of division between the segments. 
Male. The white scaling on the head covers a greater area than thr 
in the female head ; along the orbital margin there is the same row of ver 
small silvery scales running transversely to the other scales, but i 
addition the first row of large scales is white. In the centre on either side ( 
the middle line are white spatulate scales and on the nape in addition to th 
few narrow curved white scales there are some long linear or clavate silver 
scales. The upright scales are few in number black in colour and confine 
to the nape. Antennae plumose light yellowish-brown in colour and th 
plumes are black or deep brown. Palpi very slender about as long as th 
proboscis and clad with black scales. 
Remarks .—This mosquito varies somewhat in the colour of the mesc 
notum, in some specimens it is dark chestnut-brown in others it is lighte: 
In all my types the lateral lobes of the seutellum are clad with purple 
black scales but the middle lobe has a few white scales in the female an 
m the male it is almost entirely scaled with creamy-yellow scales whic 
form one with a patch of similar scales on the mesonotum at the base c 
the central scutellar lobe. In the types described in Theobald both thes 
varieties are mentioned those from Naina Tal in India have the latera 
lobes white scaled. It is a fairly common mosquito here in the jungle an' 
m houses with jungle in close proximity. No mention is made of the pate' 
of pale scales seen on the nape. In all other respects my types agree witl 
the description in Theobald. In one male the lateral lobes of scutellur 
are clad with white scales at the apex and purple-black at the base. Th 
central lobe is white scaled and the bare space on the mesonotum in fron 
of central lobe of seutellum is clad on either side with long narrow slight! 
curved creamy scales and a few broad spatulate scales of a pale yellow a 
the immediate base. The amount of pale scaling in the centre of the hea» 
varies considerably, in one male it occupies a triangular area over the nap 
and a broad central line running forwards to the vertex. 
