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river breeder for so far I have never found the larva. The male has 
hitherto not been described. 
Mansonia Annulifera.— Theobald. 
“ Monograph of the Culicidce of the World.' 1 —Theobald. 
Thorax tawny-yellow with four snow-white round spots with a dark 
line running backwards from the posterior border of the two anterior spots; 
an indistinct fifth white spot may also be present. Abdomen with white 
scales laterally and forming bands across the segments, last three segments 
elands ” ltG SCa GS * LegS yellowish ' brown a11 the j° ints with many 
Female Head— Clothed with brownish-golden scales and long golden- 
brown hairs ; palpi yellowish-brown with a few scattered dark brown scales * 
ap e x snmv-whue; antennae brown with pale bands; proboscis yellow- 
ish, dark at the base and apex.” J 
“ Thorax clothed with bright tawny scales with four distinct round 
white spots and a dark stripe running backwards from the posterior of 
the anterior spots ending between or just before the second pair ; an indis¬ 
tinct fifth spot may be present. 
Abdomen fuscous with paler apical borders marked laterally with 
white scales which extend more are less as bands across the abdomen ; last 
three segments with many white scales; each segment has also a border 
of bristles and is laterally as well as basally darker when denuded ; venter 
with numerous white scales.” 
appearance^” br ° Wn and pale scales giving them a mottled 
“ Legs all banded for their entire length; anterior femora yellowish- 
brown with a few scattered black scales with five more or less distinct 
white banas ; tibiae with four white bands the black scales being more 
a un ant giving t e dark bands almost a black appearance; metatarsi 
banded in the middle ; first and second tarsi basally banded white, last 
two joints covered with dark scales; mid femora darker with onlv two or 
three pale indistinct bands; tibiae with five white bands; metatarsi banded 
with white at the base and middle ; first and second tarsal joints basally 
white ; last two unbanded ; femora of hind legs with five white bands and 
K f aP j X V bla r ' vlth four white bands metatarsi with basal and middle 
bands and all tarsi basally white.” 
Occurrence. Madras, and has also been taken at Singapore. 
Observation.—- Differs from annulipes in being much paler of a more 
uniform yellowish-brown and from Uniformis by the spotted thorax. The 
description is taken from “ Monograph of Culicidae of the World ” as I have 
no specimen. 
Masonia Annulata. n. sp. 
Head clad with golden narrow-curved and deep brown upright scales, 
thorax black to deep brown with bright golden narrow curved "but with- 
out the definite lines of silvery-green scales of M. Uniformis. Legs 
banded and mottled but less so than in M. Uniformis and probosics clad 
uith deep brown scales and a narrow band of golden scales. 
