518 A Monograph of Culicidae. 
mid unequal and simple, the larger sickle-shaped ; hind equal 
and simple. 
Length. —2*5 mm. 
Habitat. —Obuasi (Dr. Graham). 
Time of capture. —12. x. 07, and 13. ix. 07. 
Observations.- —Taken in the bush at 11 a.m. and 5 p.m. 
Described from a perfect 9 an( l $ • This species can at once 
be told by the two pale lateral parallel lines on the sides of the 
thorax. In the } the upper one seems marked dark above, hut 
this appears to be shadow. 
Type in the British Museum. 
Ukanotaenia calosomata. Dyar and Knab (1907). 
Journ. New York Ent. Soc. XV., 201 (1907). 
“ Proboscis moderately long and slender, slightly enlarged 
apically; clypeus and tarsi dull brown; occiput brown scaled 
with two oblique lines of white scales, which converge upon the 
vertex and terminate in a white tuft; thorax deep brown, on the 
lateral margin a line of white scales to the base of the wing ; 
pleura brown with a longitudinal stripe of white scales extending 
forward over the prothoracic lobe and joining the stripe on the 
head; metanotum brown. Abdomen black scaled at the sides, 
above clothed with ochreous'-yellow dull metallic scales leaving a 
narrow black line at the base of each segment, becoming broader 
on the terminal segments and a sub-basal median black spot; 
beneath with black vestiture and apical white bands, which are 
broadest on the centres of the segments. Legs black with bronzy 
and brassy lustre, the apices of the femora white ; on the hind 
legs the dilated apices of the tibiae have a patch of white scales; 
hind tarsi with the third, fourth and fifth joints white with 
metallic lustre. Wings heavily dark brown scaled on the costa, 
the basal third of the first vein white scaled, the two fork-cells 
small but broad, the second posterior cell slightly longer than the 
second marginal cell. 
Length. —2*5 mm. 
Five specimens, Tabernilla, Canal zone, Panama (August 
Busck, collector), bred from larvae in prints of horses’ feet 
containing water.” 
