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A Monograph of Culicidae. 
Eretmapodites austenii. nov. sp. 
Head silvery-white, darker in middle ; palpi and proboscis 
black. Thorax golden with five dark lines, the three median 
ones parallel, the lateral curved outwards and then bending in 
towards the head. Abdomen black with apical lateral snow- 
white spots ; venter cream-coloured, the sixth and seventh 
segments with apical black bands. Legs deep brown, femora 
pale ochreous at base and below, apex of hind femora white; 
male legs unpaddled. 
9 . Head clothed with flat, silvery-white scales over most of 
the area with a yellow area behind composed of a few flat 
yellow scales and many yellow narrow-curved ones; two median 
areas of thin black upright forked scales and some yellow ones 
behind, four (?) golden chaetae project forwards over the eyes 
and longer black ones further back ; palpi, clypeus and proboscis 
black, the first bristly ; antennae black with pale pubescence, the 
basal and second segment with small flat dull yellow scales. 
Eyes black and golden. 
Prothoracic lobes covered with flat white scales; mesonotum 
bright brown clothed with narrow-curved bright golden-yellow 
scales and ornamented with three broad median parallel lines 
of dark scales which unite before the scutellum into a dark scaled 
mass, which has a median yellow area running to the scutellum ; 
there is also a thinner dark line on each curved towards the 
head, the golden scales pass right round the front of the meso¬ 
notum ; chaetae golden and brown; scutellum pale golden with 
flat scales to the median lobe dull white in the middle, dark at 
the sides ; lateral lobes with mostly golden narrow-curved scales, 
but a few narrow-curved dark ones; four large and two small 
posterior bristles to the mid lobe; pleurae pale golden yellow 
with a broad line of silvery-white scales; metanotum yellow, 
nude. 
Abdomen black with apical lateral snow-white spots ; venter 
pale creamy-yellow to almost pale golden, the fifth to seventh 
segments with apical dark bands of outstanding scales. 
Legs deep brown, base and under side of femora pale ochreous, 
a white apical femoral spot to hind legs, white puncta on the 
coxae; fore and mid ungues equal and uniserrate, hind equal 
and simple. 
Wings with brown dense broad scales, many of the lateral 
ones rather long. First fork-cell much longer and narrower than 
