, n ir as the proboscis are clad with deep brown scales the terminal have 
tale silky-brown hairs on them. The proboscis shews no band. 
Occurrence .—Described from a series bred from larvae taken from water 
ollected in cut bamboos. 
Remarks .—An easily recognised mosquito the thoracic ornamentation 
leing quite unique. As far as I know this mosquito is entirely sylvan and 
>reeds only in bamboos. Ic is a fairly common jungle species both on the 
Dlains and" in the hills and is a vicious day-biter. A description of this 
uosquito was published from my notes sent to Mr. Theobald, in ‘’The 
Entomologist ” of April, 1904, and was named by Mr. Theobald. The 
present description is somewhat revised and is I think more accurate than 
ny former one. 
5 Qcnus 22._ Lophoceratomyia.— Theobald. 
Palpi short in the female long in the male. Head clothed with 
narrow-curved scales in the centre. Spatulate or racquet-shaped scales at 
the sides (the latter come almost up to the middle line) and numerous 
upright forked scales. Thorax and scutellum with narrow-curved scales. 
Wings with fairly broad clavate scales which are massed towards the apex 
of the wing. Male antennae with peculiar rows of scales on the sixth to 
tenth joints inclusive. 
Remarks .—This genus contains species which closely resemble members 
. of the genus culex. The genus was created by Mr. Theobald on certain 
■■ species described by him in “ A Catalogue of the Culicidae m t e 
3 Hungarian National Museum, 1905/’ and was founded on the peculiar 
- appendages on the male antennae. The wing scaling in all the Malayan 
I species differs from culex, the anterior half of the wing having clavate 
lateral scales exactly resembling those figured on the wings of species ot 
Melanoconion. The head scaling also differs from culex m haying broad 
scales coming almost up to the middle line of the head there being fe\ver 
narrow-curved scales. I have nine species most of which are new. ^ 
4 females of this genus are difficult to distinguish one from the other and 
it is only by rearing species from larvae I have been able to determine 
; the particular species of some of the females. 
Lophoceratomyia Rubithoracis. n. sp. 
A small slender mosquito with a conspicuously reddish-brown thorax 
in the living specimen which changes after death to a yellowush-brow n , 
it is sparsely clad with black narrow curved scales. The pleurae and coxae 
are pale and translucent. The legs are unspotted covered with purple- 
brown scales. The abdomen is dull purple-brown above without spots or 
bands though the scales being few the pale yellow abdomen shews through 
in places giving the abdomen a mottled appearance under a hand lens. 
Female Head .—Pale browm along the orbital margins (w r hen fresh) dark 
blackish-brown elsewhere; there is a margin of pale grey scales along the 
eyes, numerous linear slightly curved flaxen scales in the centre spreading 
out behind and among these dark olive-brown spatulate scales which extend 
i laterally, and outside these a patch of bluish-grey spatulate scales ; there are 
