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A Monograph of Culicidae. 
Habitat.— Sylhet, Assam (Major Hall); Maddathoray, W. 
base of W. Ghats, Travancore (Annandale) 1 9 j Sukna, 500 ft., 
E. Himalayas (1ST. A.). 
Time of capture. —May, July and November. 
Observations .—Described from a single and a A most 
marked and beautiful species easily told by the quaint proboscis 
and abdominal markings. The hind ungues of the male absent. 
One specimen in the Indian Museum, Calcutta, was taken in 
thick jungle by Mr. Annandale at Sukna. 
Brevirhynchus annulipalpxs. Theobald (1910). 
Rec. Ind. Mus. 6, IY. (1910). 
Thorax black with scanty dull golden scales, arranged in 
rather obscure lines, sides and front of the mesonotum pale 
scaled; pleurae with patches of white scales. Head black, pale 
in middle; the rather long palpi black with a snow-white band. 
Proboscis black, unbanded. Abdomen black with snowy-white 
bands near the apex of some of the segments, and with long thin 
lateral creamy spots. Legs dark, with basal pale bands and pale 
chaetae. 
9 . Head clothed with rather large, loose, flat dark scales, 
showing dull violet reflections, similar creamy ones forming a 
narrow median area, some creamy ones around the eyes and small 
almost white lateral flat scales, a few thick black chaetae at the 
eye borders and golden ones between the eyes; clypeus dark with 
•small flat pale scales % proboscis rather short, thick and uniformly 
black, metallic. Palpi about half the length of the proboscis, 
black with metallic violet reflections, a broad white band about 
the middle and a narrow creamy one nearer the base ; antennae 
black, basal, segment and base of the second bright testaceous, 
the former with small flat dark and creamy scales. 
Thorax black clothed, with long narrow-curved black, coppery 
and creamy scales, the latter in rather indistinct lines, sides of 
the mesonotum with rather broader pale creamy, curved scales, 
which also pass around the front ; the scales are larger, long and 
lanceolate over the roots of the wings, creamy and violet; dense ■ 
dark brown chaetae also over the roots of the wings ; scutellum 
large, clothed with loosely applied flat violet and creamy scales 
and with rich brown border-bristles; metanotum shiny black, 
shagreen over its surface : plqurae brown with irregular patches 
of creamy-white scales, which extend up to the edge of the pale 
