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line extends from the base of the scutellum on to the scutellum T 
whole of the venter is silvery scaled; fore ungues markedly unequal a 
each unguis un.-serrate; mid ungues nearly equal and uni-serrate 
Occurrence.— The larvae found in a bamboo in Ampang jungle and wat 
and e e C ls e ew“ere hav^ ^ ^ at o^the East Coa 
and elsewheie. 1 have received specimens from Borneo. 
Remarks.—' This mosquito differs from Obturbans in the followii 
characters: it is smaller much blacker, and has a pale patch of scaled 
e nape, and m place of the narrow creamy-yellow marginal line on tl 
mesonotum of the male there is a brilliant silvery line at feast three 
as broad as that on the male of Obturbans. The male claspers are denta 
as in Obturbans and the larvae have the °reatlv develnned onai 
characteristic of the larvae of the genus.' * 7 develo P ed anal fla i 
Desvoidya Fusca.— Theobald. 
“ H ® ad b , lack with white border to the eyes and a white median natcl 
Thorax deep brown with rich brown scales and pale side line - pleuraeTit 
.“ssitr *** - i,h ■»' 
Female Head.—“ Clothed with flat black and white scales the whit 
around the eyes and in the middle and a small patch on each ride pa 
scales 1 ! ' aCk ’ the ^ ° f the former apparently with some’ w P hl 
“ Thorax black with narrow-curved flattish bronzy scales ; prothoracL 
obes with white scales and also a few white scales faterally especially a 
the base of the wing; pleurae brown with four prominent silverv whit. 
bristles;’ mePanotumPorown W ' th Sma11 flat black -ales and black borde: 
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“ Legs with brown coxae with white scales, bases of the fermora whi 
remainder jet-black ; hind tibiae longer than the hind metatarsi; ungues . 
fore and mid legs equal and um-serrated, hind equal and simple. ° 
Wings with the fork-cells small very slightly longer than the sernn 
posterior cell also very slightly narrower its base nearer the apex of th 
wing its stem nearly equal to its length ; stem of the second posterior abm 
Simila^n'nhmfTk th °f X . T d abdo . men as in the female; palpi blac 
f t0 D - Obturbans but the apical joint not as long as the penultimate 
fore ungues unequal both uni-serrated mid more or lL equTone toothe 
sma.\?TZTth~ U C \° S t y r ? lated . to D ' Obturbans and Panalectros bu 
mat in nl tom tw th ® apICal pa [ pal joint shorter than the oenulti 
• c ] \ Panalectros the two joints are about equal in Obturbans the apica 
lightly longer but especially differs in having curious mid ungues.” 
