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tibiae mottled with alternate spots of dark brown and creamy scales the 
relative amount of each colour varying in different specimens; metatarsi 
with dark brown scales and a creamy band in the centre; all tarsal joints in 
hmd leg with basal creamy band, in fore and mid legs all but the last. 
Abdomen. Dorsally clad with rich dark brown scales except the last 
segment which has a snowy-white band at its apex. All the segments are 
fringed with golden hairs. There are white lateral spots on segment two, 
three, me and six those on six being very large and extending on to the 
dorsum ; the venter is clad with creamy and some yellow scales. 
Male. I he palpi shew the nipple-like terminal joint peculiar 
to members of this genus. They are clad with dark brown scales and 
with silvery scales beneath and the first joint shows two creamy 
bands and there is a creamy band at the base of the penultimate 
joint, and the minute ultimate joint is clad with pale yellow scales; there 
are two rows of long hairs on the penultimate joint and a row of golden 
spines at the apex of last two joints. Antennae banded brown and white 
plumes olive-brown. Proboscis mottled with dark brown and yellow scales 
and not distinctly banded as in the female. Fore and mid ungues unequal. 
I he larger unguis is of great size and bears one long bulbous-ended tooth. 
Occurrence.—A common house mosquito here. Next toCulex fatigansit is 
t le most troublesome evening biter in my own bungalow but it is not common 
m the houses at the other end of this town (Kuala Lumpur). It was also 
common in Dr. Watson’s bungalow at Klang. Dusk is the time of its 
appearance, but I have been attacked in the day by solitary ones in swampy 
patches. I have bred one specimen from a larva taken in a swamp. 
R emay ks .—The male of this mosquito is not described in Theobald’s 
Monograph.” A noticeable peculiarity in the males of members of this ^enus 
is the minute ultimate joint of the palpi and in this respect it is very different 
from the males of the genus culex. This mosquito is the only mosquito 
except Culex Fatigans and other members of the genus Culex here 
which can be truly termed a night feeder. M. Annulipes is a dav feeder 
and on one or two occasions I have visited jungle after sunset where these 
mosquitoes were troublesome during the day and not been attacked by one. 
General experience here has shewn that the vast majority of species of 
mosquitoes in this peninsula are active during the day and many of them 
are never seen after sunset. 
Mansonia Annulipes. — Walker. 
Mesonotum deep ferruginous with golden-brown narrow-curved scales 
and five to seven pale greenish-blue spots; scutellum with pale greenish-blue 
scales. Wings mottled with dark brown and pale yellow scales; the 
lateral scales are large broad asymmetrical scales. Legs spotted and 
banded with creamy and creamy-yellow scales. 
Female Head. Deep dull purple; the upper surface clad with scattered 
white narrow-curved scales, a patch of small spatulate white scales on 
either side, and numerous brown upright scales over the whole head, 
.basal joint of antenna light brown and without scales, second joint canary- 
yellow at the base dark brown at the apex, with dark brown scales, 
remaining joints pale yellow at the insertions of the verticils and dark 
