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Scutellum brown with large spatulate scales on all the lobes ; bristles 
brown. Pleurae brown clad with pale grey flat scales. W ings narrow, 
clad with dark-brown scales spinose in the costa, a double row of small 
median scales to all veins except the sixth which has only a single row and 
linear lateral scales, fork cells narrow, of about equal width, the first a 
little longer than the second, its base a little nearer wing apex, its stem 
about two-thirds the length of the cell, posterior cross vein less than its own 
length from median. Coxae light yellowish-brown clad with greyish flat 
scales, rest of all legs clad with dark-brown scales with purple and bronze 
reflections, under sides of hind femora pale. 
Abdomen .—Above dark brown, with bronze and purple reflections, on 
the venter the scales are very pale with a dirty yellowish tinge. There is 
no abrupt change from one to the other the dark brown scales gradually 
passing into the paler scales beneath. There are no bands or lateral spots. 
Metanotum nude. 
Male .—Antenna plumose, last two joints elongated. Proboscis as long 
as the whole body. Fore ungues unequal larger unguis uni-serrate, mid 
ungues unequal but either not toothed or very slightly so, hind blunt and 
thick but equal. 
Occurrence .—Though the larvae of this mosquito are decidedly common 
in bamboos the adult fly has not been taken but all the specimens I have 
are bred from larvae. 
Remarks .—It is allied to the Wyeomyinae and is also allied to the 
Colonemyias, the larva of the two being very like but the scaling of the 
clypeus and the venation of the wings and mesonotal scaling at once 
separate it from these genera. 
