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Abdomen. —Clad above with dark purple-brown scales with pale creamy- 
white basal bands to the segments; venter with creamy scales, which 
become dingy-yellow in an old specimen as the scales lose their lustre and 
take the tint of their background. 
Male. —Head as in the female. Antennae densely plumose, the 
verticillate hairs being fawn-brown ; on the sixth joint is a row of dark 
brown lanceolate scales which are inserted on the outer side and towards 
the central surface which makes them difficult to see; on the seventh and 
eighth joints there are the usual dark brown crumpled scales described 
under other members of this genus. The palpi are longer than the proboscis 
by their last joint; they are clad with dark brown scales and the two last 
joints bear long hairs like the same joints in culex. The fore and mid 
ungues are markedly unequal and the larger unguis on the fore leg bears 
one tooth. Hind ungues equal and simple. 
Occurrence. —Described from a series bred from larvae taken in a pond in 
the open near Kuala Lumpur and in a similar piece of water at Klang. 
Remarks. —A very distinct species easily recognised by the banded 
abdomen. 
Lophoceratomyia Mammilifer. n. sp. 
Head almost black with short clavate scales laterally and above almost 
to the middle line, and some dark brown narrow-curved scales on the! 
central area; a band of silvery scales along the orbital margins. Thorax j 
light brown with bronzy narrow-curved scales. Abdomen and legs with j 
dark brown scales. Basal joint of male antenna with a peculiar teat-like 
projection on its upper inner angle. 
Female Head. —Dark purple or black. Along either orbital margin is 
a silvery band composed of two rows of silvery clavate scales; on the ' 
central area is a triangular patch of narrow-curved scales dark brown in 
colour seen with great difficulty as except in a very strong light they are I 
indistinguishable from their dark background; laterally clavate scales are | 
inserted in imbricate rows white in colour and scales of similar shape but : 
dark brown in colour are inserted amongst the narrow-curved scales almost | 
up to the middle line. These scales are not at all like the ordinary broad 
lateral scales seen on the head of culex and others but are definitely club- 
shaped and in the male these are elliptical. Numerous long dark brown 
upright scales are inserted in rows over the whole upper surface of the head. 
Basal joint of antenna dark purple apparently without scales but as they 
are retracted into the head it is difficult to be sure of this; second joint 
light yellowish-brown at the base, black at the apex without scales, 
remaining joints dusky with dark brown verticils. Clypeus dark brown. 
Palpi about one-sixth the length of the proboscis clad with dark brown 
scales like the proboscis. 
Thorax. —Prothoracic lobes dark blackish-brown with hairs only. 
Mesonotum under a hand lens dark brown with bronzy scales but under a 
higher power the sides of the anterior portion of mesonotum appear of a 
dirty white the centre being almost black -with dark purple patches behind 
while the bare space in front of the scutellum is dirty white ; the whole is 
