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serrated. Pleurae light brown with patches of white scales. Wings with 
dark brown scales, median elongated spatulate, the lateral broadly linear or 
slightly clavate ; first fork cell longer and much narrower than the second, its 
base nearer the wing base, its stem about two-thirds the length of the 
cell; posterior cross vein distant its own length from the median. Femora 
with deep brown scales (except the hind which are silvery beneath) and a 
spot of pearly-white scales on the apex ; tibia similarly clad but only the 
fore tibiae shew the white scales at the apex; mid and hind metatarsi with a 
broad creamy-yellow basal band ; first three tarsal joints of hind leg with a 
broad creamy-yellow band, fourth joint entirely creamy. In some specimens 
the metatarsus of the fore legs has a creamy band and sometimes the first 
tarsal joint of the mid leg. Ungues equal and uni-serrate. 
Abdomen. —Blackish-brown above with large white lateral spots. 
Male. —The antenna are plumose, the plumes being bright silky-brown 
in colour. Palpi longer than the proboscis and the two last joints are clad 
with black scales with a ring of white scales at their bases, and each 
joint bears two rows of long pale brown hairs; the antepenultimate joint 
shews a creamy band in its centre and the proboscis is banded in the same 
place. Segments five and six of the abdomen have broad white basal bands 
and the eighth segment is completely clad with brilliant pearly-white scales. 
Fore and mid ungues unequal and each unguis bears a tooth in both legs. 
Occurrence. —Described from large series bred from larvae taken ini 
water collected in ruts in a jungle waggon track. 
Remarks. —An excellent proof of how curiously local or rare some 
mosquitoes are is furnished by this mosquito. I found the larvae in 
numbers soon after coming out here in one spot and when that pool dried 
up as it ultimately did the larvae died out and I have never once come 1 
across a larvae of this mosquito since though I have searched many likely 
places. Like L. Alboscutellata this mosquito is easy to identify as it is 
distinguished by its scutellar scaling from any other species I know of 
except L. Alboscutellata and from that it is readily separated by the banded | 
hind legs the gold epaulettes on the shoulders and the banded palpi in the 
male. 
Genus 24. —Geitonomyia. — nov. cen. 
Head with narrow-curved scales above, spatulate scales at the sides 
and upright scales over the whole upper and lateral surfaces. Female 
palpi four-jointed, male three-jointed and longer than the proboscis the two 
last joints being hairy as in culex but the joints are shorter than they are in 
that genus. Thorax with narrow-curved scales. Scutellum with ligulate scales 
at the base of the middle lobe and on the lateral lobes and narrow-curved 
scales on the apex of the middle lobe. Wings with broad laterally 
projecting median scales. 
Remarks. —Very like culex differing in the presence of spatulate scales 
on the scutellum. The first species described here is described in 
I heobald’s “Monograph” under the name of “Culex Caecus” but he 
remarks that he has only placed it provisionally in the genus culex from 
which I have now removed it. The name is taken from the Greek Geiton 
neighbouring and a fly, signifying its close relationship to culex. 
