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proximal side, while laterally there is a large creamy triangular spot on all 
segments after the first the venter being entirely clad with creamy scales. 
Male .—The male has plumose antennae and three-jointed palpi which 
are slender, about as long as the proboscis and are clad with dark brown 
scales with a creamy-yellow band in the middle of the antepenultimate 
joint and another at the base of the penultimate. In all other respects it 
resembles the female. 
Occurrence .—Described from a series bred from larvae from water in a 
bamboo and in a cocoanut shell lying in the jungle. 
Remarks .—An entirely sylvan species, and a vicious day biter. It is 
closely allied to Desvoidya and Leicesteria but is easily distinguished from 
all other members of the sub-family Culicina by the chastae and scales on 
the metanotum. 
Genus io.— Dasymyia. — nov. gen. 
Head with large spatulate scales and a few upright scales on the 
nape. Female palpi short, male very slender and scarcely half the length 
of the proboscis. Proboscis enlarged apically. Mesonotum with narrow- 
curved scales and enormously long bristles. Scutellum with spatulate 
scales only. Wings with very broad asymmetrical lateral scales and 
piriform median scales. 
Remarks .—Only one species of this genus is known but its characters 
are well defined. The broad wing scales remind one of those on the wing 
of Mansonia while the head and scutellar scaling is that of a stegomyia, 
but the enormously long mesonotal bristles is a character quite its own. 
The species were all taken in jungle, one at Bukit Kutu and the others 
hovering round a small pool in the jungle at Ulu Gombak. There is no 
mosquito this species could possibly be mistaken for. I have placed the 
genus here for convenience but am not sure that its affinities are not more 
with members of the sub-family Aedeomyina. The genus Mimomyia which 
Mr. Theobald places in the Aedeomyina has identically the same proboscis 
and palpi but species of Mimomyia have short fork cells, curiously shaped 
mesonotal scales and narrow-curved scutellar scales whereas species of 
Dasymia have long fork cells clad with large asymmetrical scales, spatu¬ 
late scutellar scales and ordinary narrow-curved mesonotal scales with 
unusually long bristles. 
Dasymyia Fusca. n. sp. 
Head covered with broad spatulate purple scales with a white patch 
on the vertex and silvery lines along the orbital margins and a few rows of 
dark brown upright scales on the nape with broad serrated ends; orbital and 
vertical bristles dark brown. Wings covered with broad asymmetrical 
scales. Thorax unusually hairy. Legs without spots or bands. Abdomen 
purple-black with ochraceous hairs on the borders of the segments and basal 
ventral bands. 
