66 f A Monograph of Culicidae. 
width and very close to it, the third small, about half-way 
between the second and the base of the palpi; antennae black, 
some pale scales on the second segment, basal segment paler with 
grey sheen ; proboscis black with yellowish-white labella. 
Thorax brown with dense greyish-white scales and pale 
golden chaetae; scutellum similar and with similar scales ; 
Fig. 27. 
Wing of Nyssorhynchus pseudowillmori. n. sp. 9 . 
chaetae brown with pale golden reflections; metanotum deep 
brown ; pleurae brown with grey sheen. 
Abdomen steely black with brown hairs with pale golden 
reflections, more golden at apex. 
Legs black, fore and mid femora with white spots, not so 
distinct on the hind pair, all the tibiae mottled with white spots ; 
the fore metatarsi with two white median spots and white apex, 
the first and second tarsals white at the base and apex, third 
white at the base, last black ; in the mid legs the first and 
second tarsals with a narrower apical band only, the first having 
a median pale band, last two all dark ; in the hind the metatarsi 
are more spotted and the apical and basal white tarsal bands 
broader, the whole of the last tarsal is white. 
Wings with mostly pale yellow scales, with black spots and 
areas as follows : four large black costal spots and two small 
basal ones, the apical one smaller than the other three large 
spots which are of nearly uniform size, the first, second and 
fourth spread evenly on to the first long vein, the third has only 
two black spots beneath it on the first long vein ; the apical spot 
spreads evenly bn to the outer branch of the first fork cell, which 
has another black spot near the base and a median spot and 
small apical one on the inner branch • apex of third dark and a 
trace of a dark spot near its base ; two dark spots on the outer 
branch of the fourth and one orf'the inner and two dark spots on 
