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GeITONOMYIA C/ECUS. 
Culex C/Ecus. — Theobald. 
Head deep brown, clad above with flaxen narrow-curved scales, at the 
ides with spatulate scales first dark brown then white. Thorax brown 
nth bronzy scales. Scutellum with curved white scales and some small 
patulate scales arranged more or less in a row at the base. \ mgs \\i 
'ery conspicuous median scales. Legs banded. 
Female Head. —Dark brown, the upper surface thinly covered with 
cattered narrow-curved scales pale flaxen in colour which scales are 
nassed along the orbital margins and form a golden line - outside there is 
irst a large spot of dark brown spatulate scales (difficult to see) and then 
vhite spatulate scales ; numerous dark brown upright scales are inserted on 
he upper surface as far forwards as the vertex. Basal joint ot antenna 
yellowish-brown darker on the inner face and clad with a few very smal 
Elliptical scales, second joint pale at the base, remaining joints dark brown 
Uth dark brown verticils. Clypeus dark brown. Palpi about one-sixth the 
eimth of the proboscis, three-jointed. First joint cyathitorm with a constric- 
:ion at its base, second joint pyramidal, third clavate, as long as the other two; 
here is no nipple-like fourth joint characteristic of the palpi m Culex. 1 he 
oalpi are clad with blackish-brown scales as is the proboscis. 
Thorax. —Prothoracic lobes with a nipple-like projection at the lower 
corner and clad with flaxen narrow-curved scales. Mesonotum dark 
chestnut-brown with golden-brown scales (bronzy under a hand lens), 
and creamy scales over the roots of the wings and in front of the base of the 
scutellum. Scutellum dark brown with flaxen narrow-curved sca.es and a 
few T white ligulate ones at the base of the central lobe ;; scutellar bristles dark 
brown, ten on the central lobe. Pleurge light and dark brown with patches 
of white racquet-shaped scales. Wing veins with a double row of dark 
brown elongated spatulate median scales very conspicuous and lighter 
brown linear and clavate lateral scales ; first fork cell longer and narrower 
than the second its base a little nearer the base of the wing its stem about 
as lon^ as the cell; posterior cross-vein rather more than its own length 
from the median. Coxae light brown, with dark brown and white scales. 
Femora clad with dark brown scales, hind silvery beneath ; tibiae with dark 
purple-brown scales; metatarsi and first two tarsal joints of fore and mid 
legs with narrow creamy-yellow bands, in the hind legs all the tarsal 
joints have bands; fore and mid ungues equal and um-serrate, hind equa 
and simple. 
Abdomen. —Clad above with blackish-brown scales some of the segments 
having very narrow yellowish apical bands ; all segments after the first 
with large white lateral spots; venter entirely white. 
Male. _With a line of flaxen scales in the centre of the head outside 
these white clavate scales and beyond these white spatulate scales. 
Antennal joints banded white and light brown ; plumes dark brown with 
pale tips. Palpi longer than the proboscis by their last joint; last two 
mints short of equal length and beset with long light brown hairs, each 
joint is clad with blackish-brown scales on its apical two-thirds and white 
