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fore femora slightly swollen; ungues equal and simple in the female 
Wings with the normal culicine venation but the third long vein is carriee 
past the marginal cross vein as a scaled vein ; the lateral vein scales lout 
and nearly overlapping those of contiguous veins, their apices with market 
lateral spines. 
Remarks. To the above characters should be added antennae pilose ir 
male and female. 
HoDGESIA QuASISANGUINiE. N. SP. 
A very small mosquito with shiny black mesonotum clad with black 
scales. Head with racquet-shaped scales only, black, except for large 
silvery spot on the vertex and a small silvery spot on either side. Abdomen 
with five lateral silvery spots. 
Head.— With only racquet-shaped iiat scales which are blackish-brown 
except on the vertex and over a small round area on either side where they 
are pearly-white there are no upright scales. Clypeus blackish-brown and 
nude. Palpi exceedingly short clad with dark black-brown scales. 
Proboscis about as long as the abdomen dark scaled. Antennae with black 
naked basal joint; remaining joints dark brown with black verticils. 
Thorax. —Prothoracic lobes blackish-brown clad with pearly-white 
o\ oid scales. Mesonotum black, with a brownish tinge in a strong light, 
shining, clad with black narrow-curved scales. Scutellum black with small 
blackish-brown scales triangular in shape. Pleura bronzy with a patch of 
sil\ erv scales. W ings much longer than abdomen clad with brown scales, 
the median small spatulate scales with square ends, a double row on 
branches of second vein and on whole of third vein, a single row on all 
veins after the third, lateral scales long and narrow with lateral spines at 
their free ends, first fork cell a little longer than second, its stem about as 
long as the cell, its base nearer the apex of the wing than the base of 
second; posterior cross vein about its own length from median. All legs 
clad with dark brown scales with purple reflections; the hind femora clad 
with silvery scales except at their extreme apex; ungues simple and equal. 
Abdomen. With dark blackish-brown scales with purple reflections. 
There are large lateral spots on segments one, tw T o, three, five, and six that,, 
on the fifth segment being carried on to the dorsum and nearly meeting its 
fellow of the opposite side. 
Occurrence. —Described from females taken in jungle in the neigh 
bourhood of Kuala Lumpur. 
Remarks. —These small mosquitoes are not very common. They are 
rather vicious biters but very shy in settling. In many respects they 
closely resemble members of the genus Uranotaenia, the abdominal 
markings being exactly the same as in Uranotcenia Campestris. The equal 
fork cells however and the peculiar lateral wing scales afford a ready means 
of distinguishing them. Since writing my description a paper has been 
publishedby Mr.THEOBALD in the “Journal of Tropical Medicine” describing 
a mosquito from Africa for which he created the genus Hodgesia and 
called the mosquito Hodgesia Sanguince. From the drawing of the wing 
scales and general description it is evident that the mosquito described 
here belongs to that genus. It so closely resembles H. Sanguinae that 
