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A Monograph of Culicidae. 
9 . Head deep brown with golden and brown small narrow- 
curved scales in the middle and long upright deep brown forked 
scales over that area ; at the sides a patch of flat scales black, 
then white and then black again ; 
ocular chaetae thick, black ; palpi 
small dark scaled, the apices with a 
silvery sheen ; proboscis deep black¬ 
ish-brown, paler, of a dull ochreous 
hue in the middle ; antennae brown; 
basal segment black with some 
small black curved hairs. 
Thorax rich deep brown with 
narrow-curved bronzy scales and 
four median spots of dull yellow 
scales, rather indistinct, and another 
spot behind on each side in front 
of the base of the wings; scutellum 
brown, clothed with flat silvery- 
white scales ; pleurae deep brown 
and brown with three spots of flat 
silvery-white scales. 
Abdomen black with narrow 
basal white bands and pale golden 
border-bristles, with traces of sil¬ 
very-white lateral spots ; venter with dull creamy-yellow scales 
basally, the apices of the segments dark scaled. 
Legs deep brown, base and venter of femora yellowish; 
Fig. 121 . 
Reedomyia louisii. ?. n. sp. 
Head. 
Fig. 122. 
Wing of Reedomyia lowisii. $. n, sp. 
apices of all the femora and tibiae with a silvery-white spot; 
fore metatarsals and first segments with narrow basal pale 
