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distance from their base greater than the length of the genital lobes bend on 
themselves backwards and then curve inwards. At the first bend is a 
s iar p edged triangular process. The falciform end is solid flattened from 
above downwards and serrated on it posterior edge. On the apex of the 
genital lobe is a stout spine like process and lower down and more ventral 
is another chitinous bar with a blunt dentate end. These two processes 
are hinged and work in planes at right angles to one another. 
Kuala L^mnur^f nil ly r C °^T n D in , jun f le ' Specimens taken around 
txuaia Lumpur at Ulu Gombak, Pangkor Laut and Klang. 
Remarks.—I only possess one male bred from a larva. The female is 
common in jungle and a vicious biter. I have described the ^enitalia at 
The 6 as , are an important specific character in this genus 
t v A \ Stn S“ lans in being much less prominent and the ventro 
ood ’From A /"1 l0 "? ° r CUrVed neither ba * it the Tong 
tooth. from A. Aedes it is easily distinguished by the presence of 
abdominal spots and the much more complex genitalia. y P 
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Aioretomyia Singularis. n. sp. 
nrhitti ead " ;th 8° lden narrow scales on vertex and adjoining portion of 
orbital margins black scales elsewhere with pale lateral spots Thorax 
t r °r v/ h , d f rke , r br ° Wn ] A neS and fawny-brown narrow scXs Abdomen 
with white lateral spots. Genitalia very conspicuous. 
Male Head.— Dark brown with a bare line in the centre; some golden 
Zrt S , 3 ° e Vert , eX aad a line of them extending from the vertex 
th K 1 j 6 .b'tal margin on either side for a short distance; all the rest of 
*-®. head as { , ar as caa be seen ts clad with blackish-brown spatulate scales 
with rounded ends except for a small ill-defined spot of pale scales low down 
Drevents°thp t ? i ’ S pressed against the thorax which 
mint nf V u P n ?ht scales which doubtless exist from being seen. Basal 
■ n ° antennas arge dark brown being darker on the inner side, second 
J ., 1 resembles that m the other males of this genus in being swollen and 
' f ed 0n lts . m ner face about the centre for the insertion of a few dark 
of? ;r am >T lntS ba " ded brown and white with long plumose verticils 
small cert PU T e ;n rOWn C ‘ ypeUS lar » e ’ dark brown > nud «- Palpi 
Prnbn “ ly thre ,f’ Probably four, jointed, clad with dark brown scales. 
Proboscis long rather longer than the abdomen, clad with dark brown 
scales with purple reflections. 
narrow W J“'~a Pr0t ! 10raCic J lobes dusk y-brown clad with a few dark brown 
j,. ‘Curved s ? a * es an d some dark brown bristles. Mesonotum dark 
rather h sn r °T Ta thm , darker brown lines and dark patches at the sides 
brown bristle 0 dark b -- or lighter fawn-brown, and ^umeroj dark 
brown bristles. Scutellum dark brown, the lateral lobes lighter than the 
central, central lobe with six dark brown bristles and pale brown narrow 
frosted mo? I, ater a '° e® 3 da [ k br ° Wn alm0St black ' Pleur£E dark br °wn 
shorthr£JT h w and 'u th P atches °f sdver y-white spatulate scales and rowsof 
Kuf Wings brown, clad with dark brown scales spinose at the apical 
alf of the anterior edge of costa, large and spatulate on the subcosta, first vein 
