stout dark brown bristles projects. Mesonotum yellowish-brown 
with a band of creamy scales running round the anterior margin 
;omposed of broad curved scales in front and spatulate scales 
n front of the wings, the dorsum being clad with long narrow- 
:urved bronzy scales which are specially dense and long over the roots of 
:he wings where they form dense tufts. The colour of these scales under a 
band lens is metallic-bronze but under a 2/3 many appear pale brown. 
In some lights they appear purple as do the dark scales on the head and 
proboscis, indeed the scales on this mosquito shew a play of colours on 
every part as the angle of the light changes. Pleurae, brownish, clothed 
with tufts of white elliptical scales. Scutellum clad with spatulate black 
scales, purple or rose-purple in a good light on all three lobes; scutellar 
bristles brown. Wings clouded, covered with dark brown scales, the 
lateral linear with square ends, the median also rather narrow; fork cells 
moderately long, stem of first about two-thirds length of cell, the base of the 
cell nearer wing base than that of second. The second cell is a little 
broader than first. Median and supernumerary transverse veins meeting at 
an angle, posterior transverse vein rather short, distant about twice its 
length from median. Coxae pale, fore and mid with brown and white 
scales the hind with only white scales; femora pale scaled beneath though 
on the fore legs there are dark brown scales intermingled ; the rest of the 
legs and the upper surface of femora clad with scales dark brown or 
purple according to the direction of the light. There is no banding of the 
legs nor any suggestion of it. On the fore legs there are a few yellow 
scales at the apex of the tibia. The fore and mid ungues equal and 
uni-serrate. Metanotum yellowish-brown ; halteres with pale stems and 
black and white scales on the head. 
Abdomen .—Covered with broad purple-brown scales, without dorsal 
banding though the white lateral bands almost meet over the apices of the 
segments ; laterally there are conspicuous white bands passing from beneath 
upwards and backwards, the upper edge of each band concave; the scales 
forming these band are bluish-white, but in the dried specimen they may 
change to a dirty yellow. 
Male .—The lateral band of creamy scales on the head is broader than 
in the female. The vertical bristles are pale golden. The antennae are 
pale brown, the two last joints being black and elongated and the plumes 
are long dense and purple-brown. Proboscis distinctly enlarged for about 
one-third its length at the apex, the whole clad with black scales. Palpi 
slender, longer than the proboscis scaled entirely (save for a few white 
scales about the centre of the first apparent joint) with dark purple-brown 
scales. Fore and mid ungues unequal larger uni-serrate. 
Leicesteria Dolicocephala. n. sp. 
A 
Head compressed laterally somewhat square in shape with purple-black 
scales above sometimes with a narrow creamy line in the centre behind, and 
a creamy band laterally which is succeeded by a black band followed by 
creamy scales. A tuft of golden vertical bristles. Palpi more than half as 
long as proboscis. Thorax extended forwards over the head clad with 
bronzy scales and a margin of creamy-yellow spatulate scales. Abdomen 
