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bordered by a line of long dark brown bristles outside which the scales are 
more thickfy massed especially to the front; there are no flat scales on the 
mesonotum the conspicuous line of violet-blue flat scales on the side being 
inserted on the pleura. Scutellum yellowish-brown ; on each lobe_ there is 
apatch of brown racquet-shaped scales. Pleura yellowish-brown with darker 
brown shadings, crossing the centre horizontally is a broad pale violet 
line composed of four rows of flat scales, and there are one or two rows of 
dark brown bristles. Wings fringed with brown, and clad with brown 
scales • costa dark, with brown spinose scales on its anterior edge an 
single row of dark brown broad clavate scales on the posterior edge ; first ong 
vein clad with a double row of dark brown median scales some of which 
have obliquely truncated ends; towards the apex there are also a few pale 
Iona scales ■ stem of second long vein with pale brown piriform median scales 
whh notched ends and at the apex in addition there are a few broadly 
davate scales on its posterior edge; its upper branch has pale brown 
medfan and broadly clavate lateral scales its lower branch dark brown 
median and lateral scales which are of an irregular spindle shape ; stem of 
fourth veta pale median scales, upper branch dark median scales pale spindle- 
shaped laterals, lower branch with dark brown median and one or some¬ 
times two lateral scales; fifth and sixth veins with dark brown median sea es 
and no laterals. Coxae pale muddy-brown; fore and mid coxae ruth 
oatehes of bluish-white scales on the outer faces; femora dark brown 
scaled above and laterally, paler scaled beneath; mid femora enlarge , 
tibia; clad with dark brown scales; metatarsi and tarsi of fore and mid egs 
clad whh dark brown scales which become paler and more metall c- 
coppery on the apical joints, in the hind legs the apex of the second tarsal 
joint aid the whole of the last two joints are clad with creamy scales. 
A biomen. _Muddy-yellow, clad dorsally with dark brown scales and 
numerous ochraceous hairs the scales on the venter are pale yellowis . 
Male. —Resembles the female except for the plumose antenna; and t e 
mid ungues which are unequal one of them being v ery ar^e. 
Occurrence -I have so far only taken this mosquito in the jungle close 
to watl" " have never seen it feeding but have caught^ emaleti which are 
full of blood. It is to be found settled on leaves or bits of stick in 
neighbourhood of jungle streams. 
Uranottenia Maxima, n. sp. 
Head clad with small spatutate scales pale grey along the orbital 
with V^y scales.^MesInotuVlight brown with dark 
broln cales anl a bare IhJon either side of the midd e line and numerous 
Female Head.- There is a narrow line of pale grey' ^^4°^ rest 
orbital margins, a patch of pale blue-grey sc ^ h °“ der a haAd lels look 
Sirs?-- scarfs — • 
