Genus Toxorhynchites. 
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B. Hind legs banded. 
Caudal tuft present. 
Caudal tuft golden; 2nd hind tarsal 
nearly all white......... lutescens . Theobald. 
Caudal tuft dark blue ; ring of white on 
1st hind tarsal (?) metatarsal............ amboinensis. Doleschall. 
Caudal tuft blackish-brown and white ; 
2nd hind tarsal with pale band. lewaldi. Ludlow. 
Caudal tuft creamy, black and orange; 
1st hind tarsal only white ... gilesii. Theobald, 
Caudal tuft golden and black ; abdomen 
deep metallic blue; base of hind 
metatarsi white and all 1st tarsal but 
apex.............. speciosa. Skuse. 
Caudal tuft white, orange and black ... immisericors. Walker. 
Caudal tuft as above; abdomen basally 
metallic blue, violet apically; 1st hind 
tarsal broad white basal band. marshallii. Theobald. 
BB. Legs unbanded..... inornatus. Walker. 
Toxorhynchites immisericors. Walker (1860). 
Megarhinus immisericors. Walker (1860). 
Culex regius. Thwaites (1864). 
Journ. Proc. Linn. Soc. Lond., 4, 91 (1860), Walker; Journ. Proc. Linn. 
Soc. Lond., 8, 102 (1864), Thwaites; Journ. Proc. Linn. Soc. Lond., 
9, 7 (1865), Walker; Berl. Ent. Ztschr., 26, 96 (1882), Osten-Sacken 
(immisericors or amboinensis ); Cat. de toda la Fauna Filip., 2, 490' 
(1895), Elera; Mono. Culicid. I., 225 (1901), Theobald; idem. III., 
128 (1908), Theobald; Gen. Inst. Culicid., 14 (1905), Theobald; Les 
Moustiq., p. 230 (1905), Blanchard; Spolia. Zeylandica. II., pt. viii.,. 
159 (1905), Green; Philip. Journ. Sc. I., 9, 982 (1906), Banks; Mono. 
Culicid. IV., p. 141 (1907), Theobald. 
9 • Thorax clothed with metallic green and bronze scales,, 
pale apple green and pale blue at the sides in front and up to 
the base of the wings; pleurae densely silvery white scaled, dark 
above and below ; head with a rich brown tinge in some lights, 
green in others, paler around the eyes; palpi and proboscis, 
metallic purple and violet, with mauve scales at the apex of the 
palpi. The 9 palp has only one small terminal segment. 
Abdomen as in the $ , but the tail tuft more pronounced. 
Fore legs with the metatarsals and first tarsal segmenos, 
creamy white, rest dark; mid legs with the base of the 
metatarsals creamy white and all the first three tarsals ; hind 
legs with the first two tarsals white. 
Note .-^-The 9 is redescribed ‘ here from fresh specimens, as, 
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