Female. Head scales : Upright forked ones pale ochreous to pale 
golden yellow in front, those on the nape black; flat scales pale 
ochreous, those on the lower portion of the head dusky white. 
Thorax dark brown, clothed to a point near the insertion of the 
wings with large narrow curved golden bronzy scales. Posterior 
portion, with a narrow median black line and a central patch of minute 
narrow scales on the otherwise bare integument ; posterior angles of 
meso-thorax with numerous long hairs ; and there are many similar 
hairs on the scutellum. 
Abdomen. Scales dark and pale brown, presenting a faintly 
freckled appearance under the microscope, the dark scales prepon¬ 
derating, apical margins with pale ochreous scales, giving the 
segments under a low magnification a faintly banded appearance, but 
t is characteristic disappears under a higher magnification. Apical 
marginal hairs, whitish ; sides, with lateral pale angular basal spots. 
Venter with distinct broad pale apical bands. 
Legs co PPery brown ; femora whitish beneath. 
Wmgs strongly hyaline, scales uniformly pale brown. Length 
2-2-25 mm. 
T • C1 ° Sely resem bling the female ; but the thoracic scales are 
g t y righter 01 more golden, and the apical bands on the abdomen 
are also more distinct. 
f ., . a quitos ; Peru - Several specimens caught in the cent 
• r G ° Wn ’ ^ ' Vlt,lin 2 50 yards of swamps; February and Man 
old P xam P es were also taken in the suburbs of Manaos at t 
the p m r S Statlon: at Flores . Pensador; and at the swamp ne 
appear th U fr H ° SP ' ta '’ Ju " e “ d ^ '*** 9 ° 7 - F ™ 
J uIy a L ere ° re ' * at thls In sect may be met with from February 
One f h Pr ° babilit ^ at oth « seasons also, 
line of riem m ar hed CbaraCter ' stlcs °f this mosquito is the suddi 
thethLt a nU‘° n , betWeen the g ° Iden *** the anterio, half- 
wings. ' he dark sem, - nude Portion behind the insertion of tl 
Limatus durhami, Theobald 
Peru ° f T th ‘ S " ^ marked species was taken at Iquitos, 
margin of the v ; ° ccurred ln a dwelling-house situate at the 
the very extensive swamps in the neighbourhood of the 
