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curved closely appressed deep blackish-brown scales, a median 
line in front of flat scales, semi-transparent, with white and pale 
mauve and silvery reflections, a large area of flat dull creamy 
to ochreous scales on each side in front reaching up to the base 
of the wings; prothoracic lobes with flat silvery-white scales 
with pale blue reflections in certain lights ; scutellum clothed 
with large flat silvery-white scales, some appearing dusky on the 
lateral lobes; metanotum deep brown ; pleurae brown with flat 
creamy scales. 
Abdomen flattened laterally with large basal silvery white 
lateral patches, extending upwards to the dorsum as narrow 
areas ; base and venter of the abdomen pale dull golden, with 
metallic sheen. 
Legs deep blackish-brown; coxae pale ochreous with white 
scales; femora pale ochreous below; tibiae with the scales 
expanded apically and with some incurved chaetae; base of 
metatarsi wdth the scales slightly projecting, particularly on 
the hind legs; ungues equal and simple. 
Wings with moderately long fork-cells ; the first submarginal 
much longer and about the same width as the second fork-cell, 
its base much nearer the base of the wing than that of the 
latter, its stem half the length of the cell; the cell somewhat 
expanded basally and each branch densely scaled apically, stem 
of the second fork-cell longer than the cell; supernumerary 
cross-vein longer than the mid, the mid the same length as the 
posterior, the latter about its own length distant from the mid. 
Halteres with long stem, base ochreous, apex and knob 
fuscous. 
Length .—4 • 8 mm. 
Habitat. —Pallode, 20 miles N.E. of Trivandrum, Travancore. 
Time of capture. —16. xi. 08. 
Observations .—Described from a single 9 • A very marked 
and beautiful species which cannot be confused with any other 
Culicid. 
Type in the British Museum. 
