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lender, longer than the proboscis by their last joint, which joint has a 
tout spine at its apex. Genitalia with brush-like claspers golden-brown, 
"ore and mid ungues unequal but it is curious that the larger unguis is 
imple and the smaller toothed. 
Occurrence .—Described from a series bred from larvae taken from water 
rollected in open bamboos. 
Remarks .—This mosquito is entirely sylvan. It is the smallest of the 
Vlalayan species and is very dull coloured and slender. The colouring of 
;he exoskeleton is so feeble that it is merged in the greenish tint from the 
contents of the body. As it is entirely a bamboo-breeder it is another example 
)f the selective habits with regard to breeding of certain species of mosquitoes. 
The male ungues resemble those figured by Theobald as those of L. 
Brevipalpus and they are decidedly unique in having the smaller unguis 
:oothed and the larger simple. 
LOPHOCERATOMYIA TiENIATA. N. SP. 
Head deep purple-black with golden-brown narrow scales and bluish- 
Trey spatulate scales at the sides. Proboscis palpi and legs dark brown. 
Thorax dark reddish-brown. Abdominal segments with dingy-white basal 
bands. 
Female Head.—Dark purple-black; above, is a triangular area, thinly 
clad with pale brown narrow-curved scales, on either side of this there are 
some dark brown spatulate scales difficult to see against the dark background 
and outside these on either side is a patch of blue-grey spatulate sea es, 
vertical bristles pale brown; rows of dark brown upright scales are inserted 
all over the upper surface as far forwards as the vertex. Basal joint of 
antenna deep purple, without scales, remaining joints dusky-bro\\n wit 
numerous short silvery hairs and deep brown verticillate hairs. Clypeus 
blackish-brown. Palpi about one-seventh the length of the proboscis clad 
with dark purple-brown scales like the proboscis. 
Thorax .—Prothoracic lobes dark chestnut-brown with bristles only. 
Mesonotum deep chestnut-brown or lighter reddish-brown in some specimens 
with black and coppery-brown narrow-curved scales and long dark brown 
bristles. Scutellum brown with golden-brown narrow-curved scales and 
dark brown bristles, the number on the central lobe being five or six. 
Pleurae with chestnut-brown and paler yellowish-brown patches. Wings 
smoky, with dark brown scales which where massed, as on the costa, appear 
rich purple ; lateral scales clavate and massed towards the apex of the wing, 
fork cells of medium length, first longer and slightly narrower than the 
second, its base nearer the wing base, its stem about half as long as t e 
cell; posterior cross vein a little more than its own length from the median. 
9 Coxae light brown with spatulate scales on fore and mid; femora with dark 
brown scales except on the under side which is clad with creamy scales; 
mid femora enlarged, scaled like the fore; hind femora dark brown above m 
their whole length, creamy beneath and at the base, laterally clad with 
creamy scales, at the apex dark brown; remainder of a|l egs wi ar 
purple-brown scales. Ungues equal and simple on all legs. Empodium 
large. 
