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Female Head .—Clad with broad purple-black spatulate scales with 
rounded ends, a small patch of white scales on the vertex and a line of 
silvery scales along either orbital margin, and on the nape a few rows of 
dark brown upright scales with broad serrated ends; orbital and vertical 
bristles long and dark brown. Basal joint of antenna almost black 
with broad silvery-white scales on the inner face, second joint pale 
at the base black at the apex with a ring of small black scales inserted 
about half-way up the joint just below the verticillate hairs, remaining 
joints dusky black with numerous short black hairs on the basal two 
or three joints and white on the others; verticillate hairs dark blackish- 
brown. Clypeus black and nude. Palpi long, rather less than one-third 
the length of the proboscis, covered with blackish-brown scales and 
a few long hairs. Number of joints cannot be determined. Proboscis 
of moderate length, with the apical fourth enlarged, the whole covered with 
black scales with purple reflections ; labellae pale yellowish-white. 
Thorax .—Prothoracic lobes dark brown apparently without scales but 
with a row of long dark brown bristles, not very plainly seen in the speci¬ 
men. Mesonotum dark purple-brown clad with narrow-curved dark 
purple-brown scales and numerous very long bristles. There are two 
central rows dark purple-brown in front but lighter brown on the posterior 
half, a tuft on either shoulder and a marginal row passing over the wing 
bases where they are of great length. Immediately over the wing base the 
mesonotum is of a light yellow-brown. Scutellum paler than mesonotum 
densely clad with small spatulate scales of a purple-brown colour. The 
basal scales are shorter and have more rounded ends than those at the apex. 
Central bristles denuded five in number, all the bristles dark brown in 
colour. Pleurae dark brown with yellowish-brown lines at the junctions 
of the various pieces, with a large central patch of broad racquet-shaped 
silvery-white scales and other smaller patches in part denuded. Wings rather 
narrow densely scaled, with spinose dark brown scales on the anterior edge 
of costa, a row of dark brown broad asymmetrical scales on the subcosta, 
two rows of scales on the first long vein placed as laterals and not median, 
which at the base are large and asymmetrical but towards the apex become 
smaller and elliptical; second long vein carried beyond the marginal trans¬ 
verse clad with large broad scales many of which are asymmetrical others 
elliptical, third long vein with a single row of broad median scales notched 
at their ends and a few broadly elliptical lateral scales, fourth and fifth clad 
as the third, lower branch of fifth and the whole of the sixth with large 
broad notched median scales and no laterals those on the sixth being larger 
and broader than the median on the fifth ; all the scales are unusally ^ ar o e * 
Some of the asymmetrical are quite like those on a Mansonia wing notably 
the terminal scales on the sixth vein. The notching is very marked on the 
median scales of the sixth. I have at present seen no wing that would 
compare with this one except perhaps among the Uranotaeniae or members 
Of the genus Etorleptiomyia. Supernumerary cross-vein very oblique, pos¬ 
terior transverse nearly three times its length from median , fork cells of 
about equal breadth, first longer than second, its base nearer wing base, 
fringe scales long, border scales spatulate. Coxae light yellowish-brown 
clad with pearly-white flat scales; thighs clad with dark purple-brown 
