138^ A Monograph of Culicidae. 
The wings show the following :—First fork-cell much longer 
and narrower than the second fork-cell, its base nearer the base 
of the wing, its stem a little more than one-third the length of 
the cell; stem of the second fork-cell not quite as long as the 
cell, posterior cross-vein longer than the mid, not quite twice its 
own length distant from it. 
£ . Head with rather loose ochreous yellow scales becoming 
dusky and then black except in the middle line, a patch of 
silvery-white scales on each side at the eye border, numerous 
ochraceous forked scales along the nape becoming dusky in the 
middle. Antennae black, with dull grey bands, dense black 
plumes, showing grey reflections at the tip; proboscis long, thin 
and black ; palpi as long as the proboscis, thin, black, a very 
narrow white band at the base of the apical and penultimate 
segments, a broad one in the middle of the antepenultimate, last 
two segments nearly equal, a few black hairs on each side of the 
penultimate, fewer on the apical segment, and a few on the apex 
of the antepenultimate. 
Thorax as in % , but the median yellow line and the lateral 
yellow-scaled spots more pronounced. 
Abdomen unbanded, the segments with prominent silvery- 
white basal lateral spots; hairs black with golden sheen ; 
claspers apparently simple, basal lobes of genitalia long and 
narrow. 
Fore and mid ungues unequal, simple; hind equal and 
simple. 
Wings with short fork-cells, the first longer and narrower 
than the second, its base if anything a little nearer the base of 
rig. 50. 
Wing of Kingict luteocephala. <j\ Newstead. 
the wing, its stem a little less than half the length of the cell; 
stem of the second fork-cell about two-thirds the length of the 
