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Male Head. -Brownish-black with a patch of pale golden narrow- 
curved scales behind, scattered blue-grey racquet-shaped scales over the 
occiput and sides, and a patch of ochraceous scales on the vertex, numer¬ 
ous dark brown upright forked scales behind and at the sides. The broad 
scales are thinly scattered and do not overlap leaving space between. 
Antennae plumose ; basal joint brown with hairs or small scales on the 
inner face, remaining joints silvery-white with a narrow brown rin^ at the 
insertion of the verticils ; verticillate hairs brown. Clypeus brown. & Palpi 
slender, about one-fourth the length of the proboscis, apparently four-jointed, 
clad with brown scales. Proboscis slender, shorter than abdomen clad 
with brown scales. 
Thorax. Prothoracic lobes dark brown, with a row of bristles but no 
scales. Mesonotum brown, clad with narrow-curved scales some of which 
are black at the base and pale at the tip, others are very pale fawn; 
bristles dark brown. Scutellum brown with narrow-curved scales which 
are almost white; bristles dark brown, five to the central lobe. Pleura 
brown with darker brown patches and rows of bristles and a few spatulate 
scales w hich take the colour of their background. Wings clad with dark 
brown scales spinose on the costa; median scales long, lateral long, and 
slightly cla\ ate, first fork cell same breadth but longer than second its base 
nearer wing base, its stem about one-third the length of the cell ; posterior 
cross vein about three times its own length from the median. Legs with 
dark blown scales except on the under surface of the mid femora and the 
whole of the hind femora where the scales are pale brown ; fore and 
mid ungues unequal but in a very slight degree, the larger unguis slender, 
sharp pointed and uni-serrate. 
Abdomen. Clad above with dark brown scales which at the bases of 
the segments become pale and give an ill-defined banded appearance. 
T rere are numerous pale brown hairs at the edges of all the segments. 
1 he genitalia consist of a basal piece with two brush-like tufts of golden- 
brown. stiff hairs on the inner side of each and small simple claspers at 
the apices. 
Occurrence. Described from one male bred from a larva taken in a 
pond, Kuala Lumpur. 
Remarks. Though I have placed this mosquito doubtfully here it 
differs in many points from the other members of this genus. The head 
scaling is notably different for in the other species of Aioretomyia the 
scales are laid like tiles on the roof. The absence of scales on the 
prothoracic lobes the simple genitalia and the very long fork cells are all 
points of difference. 
Aioretomyia T^niata. n. sp. 
A few ochraceous narrow curved scales in the middle line of head and 
on the vertex, elsewhere broad spatulate scales with rounded ends, 
purple-black over the central area, ochraceous at the sides. Thorax 
dark brown with darker brown lines and covered with bronzy-brown narrow 
scales. Abdomen with basal white bands and large lateral spots. Legs 
with dark brown scales, a pale ring at apex of hind femora. Female 
ungues uni-serrate on fore and mid legs. 
