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median. Coxae dirty-white; fore coxae with colourless scales and some 
brown bristles, mid with a few scales; under sides of femora silvery, upper, 
dark brown; mid femora enlarged. The tibiae, metatarsi, and tarsi clad with 
dark brown scales which vary in colour in different lights sometimes 
appearing bronze sometimes a light coppery colour. In some lights the 
scalesonthetarsi of the fore legs look light silvery-grey. Midunguesunequal, 
the larger unguis unusually large, even for a member of this genus. 
Abdomen .—Above and laterally clad with dark brown almost black 
scales with bronzy reflections; on the venter the fourth segment is clad with 
light grey scales the rest of the segment being dark. 
Occurrence .—Described from one specimen bred from a pupa taken in a 
pond. 
Remarks .—The ventral white patch on the abdomen is much less distinct 
when the specimen is dry and old. The long proboscis and general dark 
colour of this mosquito render it fairly easy to detect, the single ventral 
white patch on the abdomen is very characteristic. 
Uranot^nia Modesta. n. sp. 
A very small dull-coloured mosquito with a light brown thorax with 
darker patches clad with lines of black bristles and pale grey narrow-curved 
scales specially numerous on the lateral margins shewing under a hand lens 
as a greyish-white line on either margin. The legs and abdomen are clad 
with dark brown scales without banding or spots. 
Female Head.— Muddy-brown shadowed with black, closely covered 
with broad racquet-shaped scales which vary in colour, under a hand lens 
they are dark bronze-brown but under other powers may shew a blue 
colour; the scales bordering the eyes are colourless and form a narrow 
pale line and behind on the nape are a few brown upright scales with broad 
serrated ends difficult to see, while on the vertex are a few golden bristles. 
Basal joint of antenna muddy-brown, nude. On the face, between 
the bases of the antennae, and above the clypeus, are a few small white 
spatulate scales. The remaining joints of the antenna are dark brown to 
black clad with numerous long white hairs, and long verticillate hairs, dark 
brown, or almost black. Clypeus pale muddy-brown, nude. Palpi minute, 
covered with bronzy-brown scales. Proboscis thick, enlarged apically 
clad with scales similar to those on the palpi. 
Thorax. Prothoracic lobes large and rounded, muddy-brown in colour, 
without scales, but with three large dark bristles two on the upper surface 
one on the anterior. Mesonotum brown, with a black ring in the centre, and 
black patches laterally. With a hand lens it looks brown in the centre 
and entirely black laterally. There are scattered pale grey narrow-curved 
scales over the whole of its. surface which on the lateral margins form two 
definite greyish-white lines; there is a line of dark brown bristles on either 
side over the wing base besides scattered bristles in front and behind on the 
dorsum. . Scutellum muddy-brown, entirely clad with bronzy-brown flat 
scales, bristles long and dark brown. Pleurae muddy-brown with patches of 
black without scales, and a few bristles inserted on the sterno-pleurae. Wings 
with dark bronzy-brown scales, second long vein scarcely separated from first 
