Thorax. —Black, with scattered black scales, a few pale golden ones 
n front, and with black bristles, especially thick just in front of the roots 
if the wings, and traces of paler longitudinal lines; scutellum black, 
nth traces of black scales, slightly testaceous in some lights, with slight 
.t the sides; metanotum pale chestnut-brown; pleurae brown. 
Abdomen. —Covered with dark browm scales, with apical bands of yellow 
cales, scanty in front, but very pronounced behind ; first segment pale 
ichraceous, with golden hairs; each segment with a border of golden 
iairs posteriorly; ventrally the abdomen is clothed with yellow scales. 
Legs. —With yellowish coxae ; femora ochraceous, with thickly scattered 
lark scales ; tibiae dark scaled, with a few scattered yellow ones; fore and 
nid metatarsi basally and apically banded with yellow, also the first 
.nd second tarsal joints, the third faintly so, the fourth entirely dark 
caled ; in the hind legs the metatarsi are the same, but the remaining 
oints are absent. Ungues simple. 
Wings. —With a slight yellowish tinge, the veins clothed with brown 
;cales, the lateral ones moderately long ; first sub-marginal cell narrower 
end longer than the second posterior cell; the posterior cross-vein nearly 
wice its own length distant from the mid cross-vein all the cross-veins 
/ery faint; the root of the wing is pallid, but has a distinct round dark 
spot. Halteres with a pale stem and a brownish knob. 
Length. —5 mm. 
Habitat. —Taiping, Perak, Straits Settlements ; (L. Wray, jun., 22nd 
November and 21st December, 1899). 
Observations. —Described from a single specimen sent by Mr. \\ ray, 
infortunately with the hind tarsi gone. It may at once be told from the 
)ther “banded proboscis” species by the small vitta just before the 
ipex of the proboscis, as well as the broader central one, the basal and 
ipical metatarsil and tarsal banding, and the dark round spot at the root of 
he wings. 
Culex Gelidus.— Theobald. 
Head black with the upper surface clad with brillant snowy-white 
larrow-curved and upright scales, and, on either side of these, a patch 
if dark brown spatulate scales and dark brown upright scales. The 
vhole of the mesonotum in front of the wings clad with snowy-white 
larrow curved scales a tuft of linear scales over the roots of the wings and 
Dlack scales behind. Proboscis and leg banded. Abdomen with basal 
ichraceous bands. 
Female Head. —Black; the upper surface densely scaled with snowy- 
vhite narrow-curved and upright scales, the lateral aspects with dark 
irown spatulate and upright scales. Basal joint of antenna, reddish- 
irown with a few small scales on its inner surface, remaining joints brown, 
with brown verticillate hairs. Palpi clad with dark brown scales. Pro¬ 
boscis with dark brown scales and a creamy-yellowish band at the base 
of the apical half. 
Thorax. —Prothoracic lobes dark brown with narrow-curved scales. 
Mesonotum light reddish-brown the portion in front ol the wings densely 
scaled with snowy-white narrow-curved scales, the posterior quarter clad with 
