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A Monograph of Culicidae . 
N^omyzomyia elegans. James—Theobald (1903). 
Anopheles elegans. James—Theobald (1903). 
Mono. Culicid. III., 51 (1903), Theobald. 
Head black behind, grey in front; palpi of 5 with four 
white bands, the broadest apical. Thorax brown, ornamented 
Fig. 10. 
Neomyzomyia elegans . James. 
A. Head and front of thorax ; B. Fore 
ungues of J; c. Hind ungues ; D. Base 
of antennae. 
loosely scaled at the base, black. 
with paler hairs and scales and 
traces of a dark median line, 
two dark spots at the sides in 
front united to form one line; 
two long thin spots behind them ; 
pleurae dark. Abdomen brown, 
clothed with brown hairs, golden 
at apex. Wings with four large 
and three small basal white 
spots, wing field much speckled 
with black and white. Legs 
black, femora and tibiae speckled 
with white ; hind tibiae broadly 
white at apex, also metatarsal 
at base, tarsi with narrow 
creamy apical and basal pale 
bands. 
9. Head densely clothed 
with upright forked scales, black 
at the back and the lateral pos¬ 
terior tufts, white in front, some 
rather narrow thin straight 
scales project over the eyes; 
chaetae black, a creamy tuft of 
long twisted hairs projects be¬ 
tween the eyes ; antennae deep 
brown with brown hairs, basal 
segment paler with grey sheen, 
second segment longer and larger 
than the others, with hairs and 
fine scales ; palpi as long as the 
black proboscis, densely but 
with rather broad white apex and 
three smaller white bands. 
Thorax slaty grey, ornamented with rich brown, as follows :— 
