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Remarks. —Though very closely resembling the preceding mosquito it 
is easily told by the much darker thorax the white scaled prothoracic lobes 
and the larger and heavier wing scales. 
CoLONEMYIA HYBRIDA. N. SP. 
I 
Head clad with large dark purple spatulate scales with rounded ends 
with a narrow pale yellow margin to the eyes and a few black upright scales 
! on the nape. Thorax dark purple clad with long narrow hay-coloured 
scales and with flat blue ones on the prothoracic lobes. Antennas with 
reddish-yellow basal joints. Pleurae dark purple with silvery flat scales. 
Femora with, two large oval silvery spots. Abdomen with large pearly 
t lateral spots. 
Female Head. —Clad with large spatulate scales with rounded ends in 
imbricate rows, dark purple in colour with a narrow pale margin along the 
eyes which varies in colour from pale creamy-yellow to white or even deep 
' blue according to the direction of the light; on the nape are about two 
rows of purple-black upright forked scales ; vertical bristles brown, paler at 
the base than the apex; orbital bristles black. Basal joint of antenna light 
j reddish-yellow without scales; second joint swollen, pale at the base, dark 
brown beyond, with a ring of pale spatulate scales and some long hairs ; 
remaining joints brownish-black with dark purple-brown verticillate hairs. 
Clypeus purple above with a well-marked light yellowish rim beneath ; 
downy. Palpi about one-eighth the length of the proboscis clad with dark 
purple-brown scales. Proboscis longer than the whole body; slender, and 
of equal thickness throughout. 
Thorax. —Prothoracic lobes dark brown clad with deep violet-blue 
spatulate scales. Mesonotum dark purple thickly clad with long hair-like 
! scales which are of a hay colour, bristles not very conspicuous dark brown in 
colour. Scutellum yellowish-brown, clad with very broad spatulate scales 
whitey-brown in colour. Pleurae dark purple-brown in the centre, pale 
brown at the margins, clad with large spatulate silvery scales. Wings brown 
with the veins clad with brown scales spinose on the costa; median scales 
long and narrow with square ends, lateral long linear; first fork cell longer 
and narrower than the second, longer than its stem by about one-fourth 
its length; bases of cells practically level; posterior cross vein longer 
than median distant from that vein rather more its own length. Coxae 
pale ochraceous with silvery spatulate scales; femora dark purple-brown 
above, creamy-yellow beneath, with two large ovoid pearly-white spots on 
the anterior surface of each ; remainder of all legs with dark purple-brown 
scales. Ungues simple and equal. 
Abdomen.— With dark purple scales above, with bronzy reflections, 
and silvery-white apical lateral spots ; venter pale yellow. Male unknown. 
Occurrence. —Described from one female caught at Bukit Kutu. 
Remarks. —Quite distinct from the two last. The absence of the blue 
band on the head, the presence of blue scales on the prothoracic lobes, the 
dark purple thorax, narrower wing scales, and smaller lateral abdominal 
spots are characters that readily distinguish it. 
