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A Monograph of Culicidae . 
brown. Thorax deep brown, grey in front and at the sides, in 
front, pleurae white. Abdomen deep blackish-brown above, white 
below and at the sides. Legs deep brown. 
$ . Head clothed with flat brown scales with violet reflections, 
a border of flat white ones around the eyes, spreading out laterally, 
dull ochreous brown upright forked scales behind; two bright 
golden chaetae projecting between the eyes in front, and a few 
short dark ones at the sides ; clypeus ochreous with long white 
scales, especially dense in front; proboscis -thin, black, not as 
long as the whole body, curved downwards; palpi ochreous, dark 
scaled above, thin, very short; antennae very pale brown, with 
dark plume hairs, basal segment bright ochreous except on the 
inner side, where they are dark. 
Thorax black with bronzy-brown spindle-shaped scales, white 
in front near the head and small flat white scales on each side 
in front; prothoracic lobes densely clothed with white spindle- 
shaped scales; scutellum brown with brown flat scales, those at 
the sides with pale ochreous reflections ; pleurae black with flat 
white scales. 
Abdomen narrow, clothed with deep blackish-brown scales 
with violet reflections and with white scales laterally and vent rally. 
Legs deep brown with violet reflections, unbanded, coxae pale 
with white scales ; under side of femora white ; fore and mid 
ungues unequal, simple ; hind equal and simple. 
Wings with short fork-cells ; the first very little longer, but 
narrower than the second, its base nearer the apex of the wing, 
its stem more than two-thirds the length of the cell, stem of the 
second posterior two-thirds the length of the cell; posterior cross¬ 
vein as long as the mid and more than its own length distant 
from it. 
Length. — 5 mm. 
Habitat. —Dawna Hills, L. Burma. 2,000-3,000 feet. 
Time of capture. —2 and 3. iii. 08 (N. Annandale). 
Observations. —Described from a single $. It is a very 
marked Aedine, at once told by the densely long scaled clypeus. 
Type in the Indian Museum, Calcutta. 
