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Thorax. —Prothoracic lobes almost colourless or dingy-white coloured 
r reen with contents, naked except for a few long dark brown. bristles. 
Vlesonotum very variable; in one specimen the general colour is dingy- 
vhite with dark slate-grey lines and a clothing of pale grey narrow-curved 
;cales and very long dark brown bristles, in another specimen the colour is 
Dale brown with a large dark purple patch on either side behind and the 
scales are pale tawny and black mixed. Scutellum dirty-white with dark 
md light narrow-curved scales and dark brown bristles. Pleurae ochra- 
;eous 'or colourless save for the green tinge from the thoracic contents. 
Wings differ from other Melanoconions, the lateral scales being linear and 
rot clavate and the scaling does not appear denser at the apex than at the 
base a feature of the melanoconion wing; first fork cell longer, but not 
larrower than the second, its base nearer the wing base, its stem less than 
naif the length of the cell; posterior cross-vein about two and half times 
its own length from the median. Coxae colourless. Legs except the venter 
if the hind femora entirely clad with dark purple-brown scales. Ungues 
equal and simple. 
Abdomen. —Clad above with dark brown scales and below the scales 
are coloured by their background and the venter appears dirty-white or 
green. 
Male. —The head is scaled like that of the female but the silvery 
orbital margin is broader and the head itself is of a lighter colour. Basal 
joint of antenna is very large and pale brown in colour, remaining joints 
pale with dark ridges for the insertion of the verticils ; the verticillate 
hairs are very dense and long and under a hand lens appear dark fawn- 
brown in colour. The scales on the palpi and proboscis are metallic and 
a coppery tint. The palpi are about two-thirds the length of the proboscis 
and of a very unusual shape which cannot be seen in a dried specimen as a 
rule as they become so distorted, but when fresh in their natural position 
their shape is as follows: at the immediate base on either side of a very 
short accuminate clypeus there is an oval swelling which may or may not 
be separated from the joint following, after this or forming part of it 
is a long joint the apex of which is enlarged and forms a conical projection 
on the inner side of the joint on which is inserted a tuft of stiff hairs ; the 
next joint is bent in the form of a bow with the convexity outwards and the 
articular surface on its apex is set obliquely looking outwards so that the 
apical joint bends outwards; along the inner side of the apex of the 
penultimate joint there is a row of short chitinous teeth. I know of no 
mosquito with palpi anything like those described above and as this 
mosquito does not in any way resemble the other members of the genus in 
the scaling of the wing 1 think its position in this genus rather doubtful but 
defer to °Mr. Theobald who so named specimens I sent him of this 
mosquito. 
Occurrence. —Described from specimens bred from larvae taken in 
bamboos and in the water collected in the hollows of trees in the jungle. It 
is probably entirely sylvan. 
Remarks. —Easily distinguished by the head and wing scaling and the 
J peculiar male palpi. In' general colour it resembles many other dull- 
coloured mosquitoes. A description I sent home to Mr. Theobald with 
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