Genus Leieesteriu. 
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Leicesteria longipalpis. Leicester (1904). 
Entomologist, XXXVI., 211 (1904), Leicester; Mono. Culicid. IV., 
201 (1907), Theobald. 
Kuala Lumpur, Malay States. 
Type in the British Museum. 
Leicesteria apicalis. Theobald (1908). 
Eec. Ind. Mus. II., pt. iii., No. 30, 291 (1908), Theobald. 
Thorax rich brown with a creamy yellow line around the 
front and sides ; pleurae rich brown with pale spots. Palpi and 
proboscis blackish, the former about half the length of the latter. 
Abdomen deep blackish-brown with apical yellow semi-circular 
dorsal patches and white lateral spots, which swell out apically. 
Legs brown, with traces of narrow pale basal banding. 
9 • Head clothed with brownish flat scales and paler 
upright forked scales behind, and with creamy spindle-shaped 
scales placed at right angles to the others around the eyes, palpi 
and proboscis blackish-brown, the former very nearly half the 
length of the proboscis, this with dense scales at the base; 
antennae brown, the basal segment large with bright ochraceous 
scales. 
Thorax shiny black, with narrow-curved bronzy and dull 
ochreous scales with a well-defined area of creamy-yellow 
scales around the front and sides; chaetae pale golden brown, 
especially over the roots of the wings where they are somewhat 
darker; scutellum testaceous with flat dusky brown and a few 
dull ochreous scales ; metanotum nude, chestnut-brown with a 
grey sheen in places ; pleurae brown to yellowish brown with 
numerous patches of small flat ochreous scales. 
Abdomen dusky black, each segment with a median apical 
semicircular yellow patch and with a lateral snowy-white mark 
which expands apically ; hairs and border-bristles golden ; venter 
pale ochreous. 
Legs deep brown, banded, femora pale at the base and 
beneath ; traces of pale knee spots ; fore legs with small yellowish 
bands at the tibio-metatarsal joint, and at the junction of the 
first basal and metatarsal and apex of the first tarsal; in the 
mid legs the bands are more confined to the base of the segments 
and occur on the second tarsal also in the hind legs extending 
to the other two segments; pale hairs on the tibiae. 
