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Thorax.—. Prothoracic lobes brown, with dark brown bristles and a few 
silvery hat scales at the apex. Mesonotum brown with dark brown 
bristles and lines of narrow-curved scales which vary with the light from dark 
brown to a pale fawn-brown. Scutellum brown with scales similar to those 
on the mesonotum ; only four bristles to the central lobe. Pleurae brown 
with patches of flat silvery scales. Wings smoky, clad with dark brown 
scales, spinose on the anterior edge of costa; subcosta and second vein 
well separated, the latter, with double row of small spatulate median scales 
m . its whole length and lateral scales on the apical half; all remaining 
veins with small single row of median scales, and all except the sixth with 
lateral scales which are almost linear in shape except at the vein apices 
where they become very slightly enlarged at their ends. Legs pale and 
ochraceous with a silvery sheen ; fore coxae with silvery and dark brown 
flat scales, fore and mid femora with dark brown scales above and silvery 
scales below and at the sides; hind femora with pale translucent silvery 
scales on the basal half and below on the apical half, dark brown scales 
above on the apical half; remainder of all legs clad with dark brown scales 
with purple reflections. All ungues equal and uni-serrate a very unusual 
condition. 
Abdomen.—C lad with dark brown scales and without lateral spots. 
Occurrence. —Described from two females taken in a patch of jungle on 
the Gombak Road five miles from Kuala Lumpur. The specimens are 
somewhat damaged but are clearly distinct. 
Remarks.— This mosquito somewhat resembles the V. Indecorabilis but 
the wing ornamentation should at once distinguish it. But it is possible 
Fragilis is the male of this species as the scaling of the head closely resem¬ 
bles this specimen but Verallina fragilis has distinct abdominal spots and 
in some minor points which have led me to describe it as a separate 
species. . There is great difficulty in determining the male of any particular 
species in this and allied genera as the males resemble one another so 
closely, except in the matter of genitalia it is almost impossible to say 
which is the male of any particular female by inspection only. 
Genus 7.—Mimomyia.— Theobald. 
This genus is apparently unrepresented here but the genera Cono- 
tiomyia Dasymyia and Eterleptiomyia have certain points of resemblance. 
Mr. Theobald has placed this genus in the sub-family Aedeomyina 
but the male palpi though not as long as the proboscis are certainly 
much longer than that of any species belonging to any one of the genera 
of this sub-family. In the genus Dasymyia the males have palpi and 
proboscis identical with those figured by Mr. Theobald in an article 
by him in “ First Report of the Wellcome Research Laboratory Khartum,” 
published 1904, as those of a male Mimomyia and I have placed my genus 
Dasymyia in the sub-family Culicina as in my opinion its affinities are 
more with certain genera in that sub-family than they are with members 
of any of the genera in Aedeomyina. 
See under “ Remarks ’ of the genera Conotiomyia, Etoleptiomyia and 
Dasymyia. 
