28 G A Monograph of Culicidae. 
Abdomen dusky brownish-black, each segment with basal 
lateral white spots ; basal segment deep ochraceous, with dark 
scales all over it; venter white scaled, with narrow apical dark 
borders. Legs dark brown; tarsi black; venter of femora 
white. Ungues of the 9 equal and simple. 
9 . Head blackish-brown, covered with flat blackish scales ; 
eyes silver and black; antennae dark brown, with the basal 
joint brownish testaceous, and also the base of second joint 
bright testaceous ; proboscis testaceous, covered with dark brown 
and black scales, and some with an ochraceous tinge ; palpi very 
short, black scaled, with a few white ones at the tip. 
Thorax deep blackish-brown, with two rather broad pale 
stripes in the middle in front, fading away halfway across the 
Fig. 268. 
Aedes Pernbaensis. n. sp. 
a, Wing of 9 (X. 10) ; b, side of abdomen ; c, wing 
scales ; d, head and scutellar scales. 
mesonotum, covered with scattered spindle-shaped coppery-brown 
scales of a bronzy hue in some lights; just in front of the 
scutellum are some creamy-white scales and also a small patch 
just in front of each wing; metanotum black; pleurae dark 
brown, with four or five patches of white scales. 
Abdomen covered with dusky brownish-black scales, with a 
basal white lateral spot on each side of the segments; the first 
segment deep ochraceous, with dark scales all over it; venter 
with white scales, except just at the apices of the segments; 
base of the abdomen testaceous; posterior borders of the 
segments with short golden bristles. 
Legs dark brown, black towards the tarsi; coxae testaceous ; 
ventral surface of femora white; bristles of the legs golden in 
some lights, brown in others; ungues equal and simple. 
