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A Monograph of Culicidae. 
Antennae deep brown; basal segment paler. Proboscis swollen 
apically, but much less so than in the $ , dark brown; labella 
dull ochreous. 
Thorax dark brown, shining, with blue reflections in certain 
lights , but this character is much less evident under the micro¬ 
scope than under a pocket lens; hairs dense and long, especially 
at the sides above the pleurae; there are also one dorsal and 
two more or less distinct sub-dorsal rows of shorter hairs, 
between which is a double series of minute , narrow-curved, 
ochreous scales, which are very difficult to see and are often 
wanting ; scutellum with four or five narrow-curved, almost hair¬ 
like, black scales often wanting ; metanotum pale brown, nude. 
Fig. 282. 
Mimomyia malfeyti. <$. Newstead. 
Tibial spines. X 75 (after Newstead). 
Wings with brown scales, and a basal, pale, nude patch ; 
median vein-scales in a double row on the subcostal and first 
long vein for two-thirds of the basal portion • in single rows on 
the remaining veins; outstanding scales present on all but the 
sixth vein, but are most numerous on the apical half of the wing ; 
first sub-marginal and second posterior-cells about equal in length, 
the former slightly the narrower; posterior cross-vein a little 
more than its own length distant from the mid cross-vein. 
Halteres creamy; knobs clothed with fiat brown scales. 
Abdomen unbanded, pale brown or ochreous, with somewhat 
scattered flat brown scales which give it a more or less mottled 
