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broadly white spotted. All the last tarsal-joints white, and 
there are some apical pale bands on the other joints ; first 
tar sals ferruginous, minutely spotted rather than banded with 
black. Thorax black-grounded, clothed with straw-coloured 
curved scales, probably disposed to form a linear adornment. 
Proboscis black at the base, elsewhere ferruginous, but for a 
very narrow black band near the tip. 
9 . Head with median and lateral patches of yellow curved 
and forked scales, separated by darker areas in which dark 
forked scales preponderate. Antennae prominently pale-banded. 
Palpi with long pale, but slight!y-brindled, tips. Pleurae and 
coxae with three pale bars. Femora and tibiae elaborately 
banded black and yellow, the pale parts preponderating on the 
former and the dark on the latter. Yenter pale ferruginous, 
with prominent black apical erect tufts. 
£. In the male the abdominal terga are pale yellow,, 
with L-shaped lateral lines, and the palpi are brindled black 
and ferruguinous, with some indistinct banding near the base. 
A rather small species. 
Habitat .—The Philippine Islands. ‘ Bred out from water 
held in banana stumps/ ” 
Finlaya melanoptera. Giles (1904). 
Journ. of Trop. Med., 367, Dec. 1 (1904), Giles; Philip. Journ. Sci. I., 9, 
990 (1906), Banks. 
“ Wings quite unspotted; its veins clothed with uniformly 
sooty scales, some of those about the middle being of the 
Mansonia form, while those on the outer parts are longer and 
lanceolate ; apical fringe exceptionally long and dense. Tarsi 
sooty, with ill-contrasted bands on the upper articulations. 
Abdomen much compressed | ; sooty, unhanded, but with a very 
dense fringe of long lighter hairs on the hinder border of each 
segment. Yenter clothed with dusky brown scales on the hinder 
part of the segments, with a band of dirty white scales, broader 
externally, across the bases of all but first and last segments. 
Springing from the junction of the dark and light portions are 
fan-shaped tufts of very long sooty scales, which project vertically 
from the surface so as to look almost like appendages when 
viewed in profile. The component scales vary in length, the 
longest being those in the middle of each tuft. 
9 . Head black, with a small tuft of white scales behind the 
