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narrow-curved scales, traces of two parallel median lines in front 
devoid of scales and showing a dark colour ; chaetae brown with 
pale reflection ; scutellum paler brown with narrow-curved paler* 
scales, larger than on the mesoiiotum, and with long golden- 
brown border-bristles ; metanotum dark brown ; pleurae deep, 
brown with patches of flat creamy white scales. 
Abdomen black with basal creamy bands, which are somewhat- 
contracted in the middle, apical segment with yellow scales on 
the apex ; basal segment with a patch of median white scales, 
from which arise long thin golden hairs; posterior border-bristles 
pale golden with darker reflections ; venter most pale creamy 
scaled, the apical borders of the segments dark. 
Legs with femora brown with some scattered pale scales, a 
creamy apex and pale beneath ; tibiae also mottled and pale at 
apices ; metatarsi and tarsals of fore and mid legs basally pale 
Fig. 140. 
Wing of Culicada eruthrosops. $. n. sp. 
banded except the last segment; pale banding more pronounced 
in the hind legs (last segment missing); fore and mid ungues 
equal and uniserrate. 
Wings with brown scales, some creamy ones on the costa and 
first long vein; - first fork-cell longer and narrower than the 
second fork-cell, their bases about level, stem of the first fork-cell 
rather more than half the length of the cell; stem of the second 
fork-cell about two-thirds the length of the cell; posterior cross¬ 
vein not quite as long as the mid, which is large, and about its 
own length distant from it. 
' Length .—5 mm. 
Habitat. —Trincomalee, Ceylon (E. Green). 
Time of capture. —xi. 1906. 
