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Genus 33. —Mansonia. — Blanchard. 
Panoplites. — Theobald. 
Upper part of head with loosely scattered narrow-curved scales, small 
patches of spatulate scales on each side and numerous upright scales over 
the whole upper surface. Palpi four-jointed in the female; last joint 
minute and nipple-like; three-jointed in the male with a minute mpple-like 
ultimate joint. Thorax and scutellum with narrow-curved scales. W mgs 
with large broad asymmetrical scales. 
Remarks. —Four species occur in Malaya one of which M. Annulifera I 
have never taken, its description is taken from Theobald’s “Monograph. 
The wings distinguish these Culicines from all the other genera the only 
other mosquitoes with wing scales at all like it being Orthopodomyia and 
Aediomyia. The male palpi are also very characteristic. 
Mansonia Uniformis. — Theobald. 
Thorax rich ferruginous-brown with lines of deep golden scales alter¬ 
nating with lines of scales of a rather peculiar shade best described as a 
o-reemsh-grey. Proboscis yellow with a black band at the apex. Palpi 
yellow with scattered black scales at the base. Legs much spotte an 
banded. Abdomen with yellow and white spots and bands. 
Female Head.— When denuded light purplish-brown, in some specimens 
much darker; the centre is clad with scattered long silvery-white narrow- 
curved scales, some pale yellow ones on the vertex and adjoining portions 
of the orbital margins, and on either side is a small patch of white spatulate 
scales and rows of dark brown upright scales over the whole head ; vertical 
bristles bright golden as are the upper orbital but the lower orbital bristles 
are dark brown. Basal joint of antenna rich apricot and without scales, 
second joint canary-yellow with a few dark brown scales, remaining joints 
deep brown with pale brown rings at the insertions of the verticils, whic 
are dark brown in colour. Clypeus ferruginous. Palpi yellow, clad with 
yellow scales and scattered black ones at the base. Proboscis yellow scaled, 
except the apical fourth which is dark brown. 
Thorax. —Prothoracic lobes rich reddish-brown with long brown bristles, 
and a few white narrow-curved scales. Mesonotum a dark apricot clad with 
beautifully metallic scales of two colours golden and greenish-grey as follows 
a broad central band of golden scales extending back for about three-quarters 
the total distance when greenish-grey scales form two lines enclosing the 
usual bare space at the base of the scutellum outside this band on either 
side is a broad band of greenish-grey scales succeeded by golden scales to 
the margin. In some specimens there is a narrow central line of greenis - 
o-rey scales then golden then greenish-grey followed by golden, but the first 
described is the more usual. Scutellum ferruginous, clad with greemsh- 
-rey narrow-curved scales on all its lobes ; bristles golden-brown. Pleurae 
brown with dark brown spots. Wings clad w r ith the typical asymmetrica 
scales, yellow and dark brown; border scales clavate, dark brown in colour; 
first fork cell longer and much narrower than the second, its base nearer the 
apex of wing, its°stem less than half the length of the cell; posterior cross¬ 
vein rather °more than its own length from the median. Coxae creamy- 
white; under side of femora creamy-white with rings of creamy scales 
involving the lateral but not the dorsal surfaces, dorsum dark brown; 
