I lark brown, crossed about the centre by a line of bluish-white broad scales. 
Agings; anterior edge of costa armed with dark brown spinose scales; 
here is a long area clad with dark brown scales on the anterior margin 
vhich embraces the basal three-fourths of the costa the whole of the sub- 
j :osta and the basal four-fifths of the first long vein. These dark scales are 
ill large scales with obliquely truncated ends arranged as a single row on 
he costa and subcosta and as a double row on the first vein. Each vein 
)f the wing to the upper branch of the fifth lying below or posterior to the 
ipical one-third of this dark band is clad with broad dark brown median 
scales thus giving the appearance of a dark band running transversely 
icross the wing ; the rest of the wing is scaled with bluish-white scales the 
}lue being specially apparent in the living specimen. The median scales 
ire all unusually broad and very large the lateral are large spindle-shaped 
scales and are present on the branches of the second, fourth and fifth veins 
and on the whole of the third vein. Coxae of a paler brown than the pleurae. 
Apparently without scales but with a few dark brown bristles. Femora 
:lad above with purple-bronze scales and pale silvery-brown scales 
.beneath. Mid femora enlarged. Legs clad with dark purple-bronze 
scales. Ungues equal and simple. 
Abdomen .—Scaled above and below with dark purple-bronze scales. 
Male unknown. 
Occurrence .—This small mosquito is invariably found in the neighbour¬ 
hood of jungle pools or streams resting either on the surface of the water or 
I on leaves or bits of stick. 
Remarks .— It is extremely difficult to see and if disturbed as a rule 
rises and after a short flight settles again in the same place. I have never 
known them bite though I have taken a good number in a very small area. 
Uranot^nia Nivea. n. sp. 
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Thorax bronze-brown. In front of the wings there is a band of snowy - 
, white scales which runs forwards getting broader as it goes until it meets 
its fellow of the other side. The head is covered with snowy-white scales. 
The anterior margin of the wing is clad with dark brown scales for the basal 
( three-fourths and a more or less definite band passes across the wing about 
. the junction of the middle and apical thirds. Abdomen with broad apical 
white bands. Last two joints and half the second joint of hind tarsus 
creamy. 
Male Head. —Completely covered with silvery-white flat scales which on 
the vertex are long and spatulate but elsewhere are broad and racquet-shaped. 
I can detect no upright scales. The vertical and orbital bristles are dark 
brown and not very long. Basal joint of antenna dusky-brown without 
| scales, remaining joints pale and translucent at apex and base, smoky 
between, covered with creamy hairs. Verticillate hairs dark brown. 
Clypeus brown. Palpi minute of a brownish colour clad with scales which 
take the colour of their background. Proboscis enlarged at the apex clad 
with dark brown scales which under a hand lens shew bronze-purple 
reflections. 
