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lad with dark purple-bronze scales. I can detect no upright scales. 
Vertical and orbital bristles dark brown. Basal joint of antenna light 
>rown with a few hairs on upper edge of the inner face, second joint dark 
irown as long as any two succeeding joints, clad with short and long hairs 
! >ut not arranged in a definite ring, remaining joints dark brown with dark 
; irown hairs having pale tips. Verticillate hairs dark brown with pale tips, 
flypeus light brown, without scales, closely embraced by the palpi. Palpi 
ninute. hairy, clad with dark brown scales. Proboscis about as long as 
lorax and abdomen, apical fifth enlarged, the whole clad with dark brown 
cales with purple reflections. 
Thorax .—Prothoracic lobes brown clad with broad bluish-white scales 
vhich make one line with the bands on the head and pleura. There is also 
;. line of bristles inserted on each lobe. Mesonotum brown, with darker 
irown markings, and an ill-defined central dark brown stripe; on either 
ateral margin there is a bluish-white line in front of the wings composed of 
. single row of scales which stand out from their points of insertion. 
These scales are spindle-shaped near the wing but at the other end they 
lecorne short and almost circular; the dorsum is clad with narrow-curved 
cales dark brown with paler tips. The mesonotal bristles are unusually 
ong and stout. Scutellum dark brown, clad entirely with dark brown 
mall racquet-shaped scales. Pleura brown crossed by a bluish-white line 
>f broad scales about the centre. Wings clad with dark and light brown 
i cales. In the living mosquito the light scales have a silvery-blue colour 
)Ut if a wing be mounted dry and viewed with transmitted light the light 
cales appear light brown. The costa has almost black spinose scales on 
ts anterior edge. The median scales on the basal half of the costa the 
>ortions of the subcosta and first vein that lie posterior to this are dark 
)rown almost black and form a long dark band on the anterior edge of the 
ving. A second but much shorter dark scaled area is formed by dark scales 
it the end of the first long vein and the portion of costa anterior to it. All 
he veins after the first have a single row of broad median scales and the 
tranches of the fork cells and the whole of the third vein have in addition 
rregular spindle-shaped lateral scales. There may be one or two lateral 
scales at the apices of the branches of the fifth vein. Coxae muddy-white 
ipparently clad only with bristles. Femora clad above and laterally with 
lark purple-brown scales, pale beneath ; mid femora swollen ; the rest of the 
ore and mid legs dark brown scaled. Hind tibiae and metatarsi clad with 
lark purple-brown scales, first tarsal joint with a very imperfect creamy 
)asal band, second with a well marked creamy basal band and a small 
ipical band, third and fourth entirely clad with creamy scales. Ungues 
simple and equal. 
Abdomen .—Clad above and laterally with dark purple-brown scales, 
i/entrally the scales are paler and there are apical bands of dingy-white 
icales. 
Male .—The male has a tuft of pale blue lanceolate scales on the vertex 
md running backwards from this on either side is a line of racquet-shaped 
Dale blue scales which is convex outwards hence it encloses an oval space 
dad with rich purple-bronze racquet-shaped scales which in some lights 
ire deep blue; rest of the head clad with dark purple-bronze scales. Basal 
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