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A Monograph of Culicidae. 
black verticillate hairs, basal segment with pale testaceous areas ; 
proboscis deep brown, as long as the whole body; palpi deep 
brown, prominent. 
Thorax deep brown, with large smoky and bronzy brown 
spindle-shaped scales scattered irregularly; a small patch of flat 
similar coloured ones over the roots of the wings and the spindle- 
shaped ones becoming longer and larger before the scutellum ; 
scutellum brown with flat brown scales and two brown posterior 
border chaetae to the mid lobe; metanotum bright brown; 
pleurae brown, with a patch of flat dull ochreous scales in front 
running up to the. prothoracic lobes and with flat silvery-white 
scales to some extent forming a short broad line up to the root 
of the wings. 
Abdomen deep black with deep violet reflections, unbanded 
with long white lateral spots, practically extending the whole 
length of the segment; venter all creamy scaled. 
Legs unbanded, deep brown with ochreous and bronzy reflec¬ 
tions, bases yellow, and with some flat silvery scales, tibiae with 
a few large spines ■; ungues small equal and simple. 
Wings with brown scales, the fork-cells rather short, the first 
fork-cell longer and a little narrower than the second fork-cell, 
its stem more than half the length of the cell; its base nearer 
the apex of the wing; stem of the second fork-cell more than 
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Fig. 252. 
Wing of Phoniomyia caeruleocephala . $. n. sp. • 
half the length of the cell; the branches of the second vein 
somewhat contracting towards the apex • posterior cross-vein 
longer than the mid about its own length distant from it. 
Length .—4 mm. 
£ . Like the 9 > but the head shows more play of colours, in 
some lights there is a frontal median creamy spot and a median 
transverse line of the same before the dark posterior area. 
Antennae with long brown plume hairs. A more prominent 
