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Sub-Family CULICINA. 
Genus. —Etorleptlomyia. — Theobald. 
Position undetermined. 
“ Head clothed with a mixture of narrow-curved scales, upright forked 
ones and small loose flat scales all over; antennae scaly on the basal joints. 
Thorax with scales of mesonotum narrow and curved, those of the 
scutellum flat and small. Abdomen clothed with flat scales. Wings with 
very marked heart-shaped scales on the basal halves of the second, third, 
fourth and sixth veins, on the first long vein, base of second and fourth, also 
with more or less Mansonia-like scales, and along costal border also ; scales 
on the apical half of the veins pedunculated and clavate, peduncles very short; 
costa spiny; fork cells moderately long.” 
The above is from Theobald’s notes on mosquitoes in “The First 
Report of the Wellcome Research Laboratory,” Khartum. He only 
describes the female but the male here described resembles his species in 
the character of the wings, cephalic and scutellar scaling so closely that 
I feel sure it is the male of a member of this genus. The male proboscis has 
a wonderfully close resemblance to that of species of the Genus Mimomyia. 
It is apparently a member of the sub-family Culicina. 
Etorleptiomyia Completiva. n. sp. 
Head deep black with numerous silvery curved scales on the upper 
surface and deep brown spatulate scales at the sides. Prosboscis much 
enlarged apically. Thorax black with silvery narrow-curved scales. Wings 
mottled with black and yellow cordate and asymmetrical scales. 
Male Head .—Deep black, clad above with silvery narrow-curved scales, 
laterally with deep brown large spatulate scales and on the occiput with 
broad topped upright scales many of which have white tips. Basal joint 
of antenna deep brown, with small creamy clavate scales, remaining joints 
deep gold with golden plumes. Clypeus deep brown and nude. Palpi slender, 
about three-fourths the length of the proboscis with three apparent joints, 
the ultimate being minute and clavate, clad with golden scales for the most 
part except for a patch of black scales on the upper surface at the base and 
in the middle, and black scales on the ultimate joint with a few white ones 
on its upper surface. Proboscis longer than the palpi and with the apical 
half much swollen, clad with deep golden scales except for some black ones 
at the base. 
Thorax .—Prothoracic lobes black clad with small silvery scales. 
Mesonotum black with a broad band of silvery narrow-curved scales in the 
centre some silvery scales on the shoulder and over the wing roots 
elsewhere clad with black narrow-curved scales. Scutellum deep brown 
with spatulate scales black and light yellowish-brown. Over each wing 
root on the mesonotum is a dense tuft of black ligulate scales. Pleurae 
