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L dense covering of short downy white hairs to each joint; verticillate hairs 
black. Clypeus dark slate and nude. Palpi three-jointed, the terminal 
joint being club-shaped and about as long as the other two joints together, 
| covered with dark slate or black scales with purple reflections. Proboscis 
as long as the abdomen, scaled as the palpi. 
Thorax .—Prothoracic lobes practically colourless and translucent but 
in freshly hatched specimens they have the greenish tinge due to the 
internal contents; a few black bristles are inserted on each lobe but no 
scales. Mesonotum has a brown colour in some lights but in the shade it 
bi has a smoky tint due to the greenish tinge of the thoracic contents behind 
it; it is clad with narrow scales which are almost black though in some 
lights they are of a dark slate colour. These scales are arranged more or 
less in lines. Mesonotal bristles black. There are a few light-grey scales 
on the anterior margin of the mesonotum. Scutellum of the same colour 
as the mesonotum clad with a patch of spatulate scales on the central lobe ; 
the lateral lobes are without scales and this is the normal condition and is 
not due to denudation. Scutellar bristles black, five to the central lobe in 
the type, six in two other specimens. Pleura translucent greyish-white 
without scales but with two short rows of black bristles. W ings smoky 
covered with dark slate-grey scales ; double row of narrow median scales 
to all the veins and very narrow linear lateral scales on all except the 
subcostal. Coxae colourless translucent with a few spatulate pale scales on 
the hind coxae and blackish bristles on all. Under sides of femora silvery; 
the rest of each leg is clad with scales exactly the same colour as those on 
the proboscis and abdomen that is they are almost black in some lights 
with a greyish tinge in others and bronzy-purple if looked at obliquely. 
Hind tibiae spinose. Ungues equal and simple. 
Abdomen .—Clad with dark purple-brown scales above and pale scales 
below. No spots or hands. 
Male .—Antennae dusky-brown with purple-brown plumes. The palpi 
are peculiar in the presence of a small collar-like joint between the second 
and fourth or terminal joint. Fore ungues look equal both in a mounted 
i preparation and a dry specimen. One of them is uni-serrate. The mid 
ungues are small and equal but not as small as the hind. One unguis 
bears a small tooth. The genitalia in this specimen are very complex. 
The basal piece supporting the claspers is roughly three-sided, one side 
convex the other two flat. The convex side is dorso-lateral, one flat side 
is ventro-lateral the other internal. At the base of the clasper on the outer 
i side is a projection supporting a thick pointed chitinous rod which sticks 
up like a thorn on a branch ; the apex curves downwards towards the 
venter and ends in a clump of thick chitinous golden-brown spines about 
five in number. Just behind the end a large chitinous hook is inserted 
which curves downwards and ends in a broad barbed arrow head. This 
piece projects outwards and it may be folded downwards. It works on a 
hinge joint in a dorso-ventral plane. The internal claspers consist of 
several pieces but are difficult to make out with accuracy. The ventral 
[ plate of the genital segment ends in a broad tip fringed with long hairs. 
The genitalia are absolutely characteristic as though species of Aioretomyia 
and Verrallina have also singularly complex genitalia ; they are all distinct 
from one another and from this mosquito. 
