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enlarged portion and at its apex a tuft of yellowish-brown scales with a sickle¬ 
shaped curved at their ends ; the remainder of the joint is very thin except 
! just at the apex where it again swells out and where there is a long spinose 
dark brown scale inserted. Three of these scales are inserted abo\e the 
length of the anterior surface of the first tarsal joint. The ungues are small 
/ and simple. In the mid leg the metatarsal joint is longer than any of the 
tarsal joints but the penultimate joint is unusually short shorter than the 
ultimate and the ungues are unequal the larger being much curved. The 
hind leg shews a small tuft of long scales at the apex of the tibia. The 
genitalia are too much retracted to make out. 
Occurrence .—Abundant in crab holes at Port Swettenham and among 
plantations of Nepah palms between Port Swettenham and Klang and at 
i Klang. The larvse are found either in the water collected in crab holes or 
in stagnant pools or swamps. 
Remarks .—The male of this mosquito is easily distinguished from all the 
other Uranotseniae hitherto discribed by the presence of a curious tuft of 
long scales on the tibio-metatarsal joint of the fore leg. The female closely 
resembles some of the other members of the genus. 
Uranot^nia Longirostris. n. sp. 
Thorax deep brown with brown scales and bristles, and a line of 
bluish-white erect scales in front of the wings, another crossing the middle 
of the pleura. Head almost entirely clad with bluish-white scales except 
over the nape where the scales are bronze-purple. Proboscis longer than 
the whole body. Legs and abdomen covered with purple-brown scales. 
A broad white ventral band about the middle of the abdomen. 
Male Head .—Of a smoky-brown; on the occiput there is a small patch 
of scales which in some lights are dark bronze, in others, rich purple, else¬ 
where the scales are bluish-white, those on the vertex being rather long 
spatulate scales, the rest racquet-shaped. I cannot detect any upright 
forked scales. Orbital and vertical bristles dark brown. Basal joint of 
antenna dark brown, almost black, apparently without scales or hairs, 
remaining joints brown; verticillate hairs dark brown. Clypeus dark brown. 
Palpi minute closely applied to the clypeus brown scaled. Proboscis longer 
than the combined thorax and abdomen, clad with dark brown scales. 
Thorax .—Prothoracic lobes dark brown clad with bluish-whiteflat scales. 
Mesonotum dark brown, almost black, clad with narrow-curved scales of a 
brown colour but not so dark as the mesonotum, and in front of the wings is a 
bluish-white line composed of scales which are erect and near the wing, 
spindle-shaped, but at the anterior end they are shorter and racquet-shaped. 
The mesonotal bristles are long stout and dark brown in colour. Scutellum 
blackish-brown, entirely clad with blackish-brown spatulate scales; bristles 
dark brown; central, four in number. Pleurae dark umber-brown, crossed 
about the centre by a line of bluish-white racquet-shaped scales. Wings 
without spots, clad with dark brown scales of the usual type, spinose on the 
anterior edge of costa, large spindle-shaped lateral scales on the fork cells 
and third long vein, elliptical median scales on all veins; fork cells short, first 
much narrower but little shorter than the second, it base nearer the wing apex, 
cross veins meet an angle, posterior a little more than its own length from 
