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A Monograph of Culicidae. 
Thorax deep brown with narrow-curved bronzy brown scales 
and numerous long dark chaetae, particularly dense over the 
roots of the wings ; scutellum pale with small flat dark scales 
and black border-bristles, the lateral scales forming distinct 
tufts ; metanotum brown in the middle, ochreous at the sides ; 
pleurae bright ochreous with a patch of flat almost transparent 
ochreous scales. 
Abdomen deep brown unbanded, the sides having an 
ochreous sheen in certain lights; border-bristles golden; venter 
ochraceous. 
Legs bright ochreous at their bases, but from the femora to 
the tarsi almost black. 
Wings with brown scales ; fork-cells rather short, first fork¬ 
cell longer but scarcely narrower than the second, its base 
slightly nearer the apex of the wing, its stem about two-thirds 
Fig. 235. 
Wing of Ficalbia simplex. 9. Theobald. 
the length of the cell, stem of the second posterior nearly as long 
as the cell; posterior cross-vein longer than the mid, not quite 
twice its own length distant from it. 
Length .—3 mm. 
Habitat. —Trincomalee, Ceylon (Green). 
Time of capture. —xi. 1906. 
Observations .—Described from two 9 J s. They are undoubtedly 
those of the Ficalbia simplex which I described from Ceylon. 
Types in the British Museum. 
Ficalbia inornata. Theobald (1908). 
Entomologist, XLI., 108 (1908), Theobald. 
Thorax and abdomen uniform deep browb.; proboscis moder¬ 
ately long, deep brown; pleurae pale brown. Legs uniform 
brown. The whole insect with bronzy reflections in bright light. 
