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fork cells moderately long about quarter the length of the wing Palni small 
5S2ST--**« “ “»”*"• *«*S* h S , P ?ei‘ 
This genus is closely related to culex and Melanoconion on the 
one hand and less so to Aioretomyia amongst the Aedeomyinm. In fact 
°, th . ln 8 could better shew how unscientific is a classification based on 
palpi than that genera so closely related as Culex, Melanoconion and 
found in M^ya. ? “ d ‘ fferent familieS ' ° ne Spedes have so been 
Aedes Malayi. n. sp. 
hl _ , A Sma11 ,n0Sqi ! U0 ? f slender build, general colour dark brown with 
black margins to the wings. Head clad above with dark blue-<^rev scales 
with a pale margin to the eyes and pale scales on the genaf Thorax 
muddy-brown clad with lines of black narrow curved scales Abdomen 
the n ed L Wlt b, bla f k scaI f Wlth a few white ones scattered irregularly amon« 
the black and pale basal bands on the first three or four segments y Le"° 
purple-brown unbanded. segments. Legs 
Female Head.— Dark slate-grey, in some lights it has a slightly brown 
tint especially at the orbital margin, covered almost entirely with flat 
in^ qa f' shaped sca * e . s with a few pale grey narrow-curved scales arranged 
m a triangular patch in the centre of the head with the racquet-shaped scales 
on either side and dark brown upright scales over the whole upper surface 
^eni er a a re h nafe hi S ^ ^ ®i al ° ng ° rbital margin and be ^ ath the 
genae are pale b ue-grey, above, and at the sides, the scales are of a 
accordi : n- 0 ta n Vhe Under v 2/3 th u Se SCa ‘ eS appear grey or brown or P ur P le 
according to their position with respect to the light. Vertical bristles 
change colour as do the scales. unsties 
Basal joint of antenna under a hand lens is mouse-grey. Viewed 
under a 2/3 it may appear light muddy-brown or grey. There are a few 
Pa e , ha X S “Vi 3 inner ta « difficult to see, second" joint pale grey at the 
“ darbr at the apex, remaining joints dark grey, paler at the insertion 
ot the verticils, clad with numerous pale hairs, verticillate hairs dark grev. 
C ypeus mouse-grey and nude. Palpi about one-eighth the length of the 
proboscis clad with light mouse-grey scales. Proboscis slender, except for 
Lab a il > i C ^)ale U bro\vn W ^ 1C ^ * en ‘ arged ’ ^ With P ur Ple-brown scales. 
Thorax .—Prothoracic lobes very large and prominent, dark grey in colour 
W1 a me hr( J wn bristles anteriorly and a very few narrow curved scales 
Pa m colour mser ted on the posterior aspect. Mesonotum of a 
mU q d m y *i br0Wn i tmt Wlth , tv f° dark Purple-brown lines on either side of the 
middle line and covered with lines of narrow-curved scales which under a 
hand lens are purple-brown. Pleurae without scales, muddy-brown. Wings 
ark brown covered with purple-brown scales. Anterior edge of costa 
spinous, \eins thickly clad especially costa and first long vein, the second 
long vein basally has very narrow linear lateral scales and narrow 
median scales with square ends but on the branches there are also clavate 
scales especially at the apex of the wing and the median scales seem to be 
