14y A Monograph of Culicidae. 
bristles small, brown with pale reflections ; large lateral white 
spots, most marked on the apical segments. 
Legs black, unbanded, femora pale beneath, the hind pair 
white below and at the base; chaetae dark (in some lights the 
legs have a brassy sheen) ; fore and mid ungues equal and 
uniserrate, hind equal and simple. 
Wings with short fork-cells, nearly equal in length ; the first 
submarginal narrower than the second posterior, its base a little 
nearer the apex of the wing, its stem nearly as long as the cell, 
stem of the second posterior as long as the cell ; about one and a 
half times its own length distant from the mid. Halteres with 
a pale testaceous stem, fuscous scales towards the white knob. 
Length .—6 mm. 
Habitat. —Balighai, near Puri, Orissa. 
Time of capture. —24. x. 08 (Annandale). 
Observations .—Described from a single perfect 9 . It is a 
typical Desvoidya, and can be told at once by the very pronounced 
apical yellow abdominal bands. 
Type in the Indian Museum, Calcutta. 
Genus BREVIRHYNCHUS. Theobald (1908). 
Bee. Ind. Mus. II., pt. iii., No. 30, 293 (1908), Theobald. 
Head clothed with flat scales, also the scutellum, the latter 
large. Thorax with narrow-curved scales at the edges of the 
mesonotum, and flat scales towards roots of wings ; prothoracic 
lobes and pleurae with flat scales. Proboscis of 9 short, thick, 
about one-third of the length of the whole insect, curved twice, 
of the male thinner and slightly longer in proportion ; palpi of 
the 9 two-thirds the length of the proboscis, apparently of two 
segments, the apical long; palpi of the $ longer than the 
proboscis, acuminate, no hair-tufts, of four segments, the two 
last nearly equal. Wings with dense scales, some Taeniorhynchus- 
like. Pore ungues of male unequal, the larger uniserrate, mid 
equal and uniserrate. 
A very distinct genus, easily told by the short thick sinuous 
proboscis of the 9 and the relatively long palpi, as well as the 
squamose structure of the thorax with its flat lateral scales. The 
mid ungues of the $ being equal is also characteristic. 
The species so far all come from India. 
