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hairs along the distal borders of the segments; venter black, with broad 
basal snowy bands to the segments. Male claspers black, proportionally 
large. 
“ Length —of wings in d , 2'2 mm., of abdomen, 2*5 mm. 
“ Habitat .—Allahabad and Lucknow in houses. 
“ Observation .—A small, heavily-built mosquito, nearly black through¬ 
out, the abdominal banding often disappearing by shrinkage in drying, 
with short thick legs and exceptionally small wings.” 
Note.— In the description first sent me by Col. Giles he 
says: “A number of strong bristles, which become especially 
marked along the posterior border of the metanotum, which is 
armed with a median and lateral pair of tufts of strong bristles, 
nearly as long as the first two abdominal segments.” This 
clearly refers to the scutellum, not metanotum. On pointing 
this out to my friend, he writes the following: “The species 
I thought must belong to your Wyeomyia had bristles both on 
the scutellum and metanotum.” The male has long palpi. 
Some mistake has been made here, the insect referred to is 
undoubtedly a typical Culex. (F. Y. T.) 
