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1 behind. The upright forked scales are very few in number and owing to 
1 the extreme shortness of the neck and the arching of the mesonotum 
forwards they are almost impossible to see without dissection. The 
i lateral scales outside the bluish-white lines are deep blue or dark brown 
varying with the light. Vertical and orbital bristles black. Basal joint of 
antenna ferruginous with a few white narrow-curved scales on the inner 
1 face, second joint as long as the two succeeding joints dark brown in colour 
with some blackish-brown hairs there being two especially long ones on 
I the external face just before the verticil, remaining joints blackish-brown 
clad with numerous short dark and pale hairs; verticillate hairs dark 
i brown. Clypeus dark reddish-brown, frosted above, naked. Palpi 
extremely short and closely applied to the clypeus beyond which they do 
not extend, hairy and clad with dark brown scales. Proboscis nearly as 
long as the whole body, enlarged apically, clad with dark brown scales 
which have a metallic-bronze appearance in an oblique light. The enlarge¬ 
ment involves about one-eighth of the total length and on the under surface 
are much longer than those on the rest of the proboscis. There is a row of 
short hairs on the upper surface on either side of the middle line on the 
enlarged portion and two rings of white hairs are in front of the other at the 
apex and another ring of white hairs round the base of the labellae which 
are very acuminate. 
Thorax .—Like other Uranotaeniae the thorax is very much arched 
and the mesonotum projects further forwards than in other mosquitoes and 
this alter the pose of the head the vertex looking forwards instead of 
upwards. Prothoracic lobes muddy-brown crossed obliquely fiom abo\e 
downwards and backward by a line of blue-white racquet-shaped scales 
which are in one line with similar scales on the head and the pleura. 
Above and below this line the scales are pale and take the colour of the 
background. There are some dark brown bristles inserted on the apex and 
in front. Mesonotum light muddy-brown ; on either lateral margin a line 
of blue-white racquet-shaped scales which extends forwards from the root 
of the wing to a little short of the anterior margin. The entire space 
between these lines is covered with dark brown narrow-cur\ ed scales a 
higher power reveals some grey scales interspersed. The bristles as in 
most of these small uranotaeniae are of unusual length. They are dark 
brown in colour. The anterior marginal are particularly long and numerous. 
The praescutellar are grey in colour. Scutellum similar in colour to the 
mesonotum; central lobes clad with broad spindle-shaped dark brown 
scales (in mass they appear almost black) the lateral lobes with dark brown 
broad linear scales with truncated ends. Scutellar bristles long and dark 
brown. Pleura muddy-brown but paler than the mesonotum (it gets 
much darker in dried specimen) crossed by a line of blue-white 
racquet-shaped scales continuous with those on prothoracic lobe and ending 
behind in a patch of similar scales above the hind coxa; there are also a 
few bristles. Wings with costa armed on its anterior edge with spinous scales, 
black opposite the black scaled areas, creamy-yellow opposite the white. 
The scales on the costa are broad racquet-shaped and are dark brown on 
the basal half then bluish-white then dark brown then bluish-white to the 
apex. The colour of the scales on basal half varies being sometimes 
broken by white. The subcostal and first long veins are scaled blue-white 
for the first third of the wing, then dark brown, then blue-white to a little 
