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A Monograph of Culicidae. 
Pardomyia qucbdriyunctis. n. sp. Ludlow. 
“ $ .—Head yellowish-brown, with a small dark median spot in the 
chitin on the occiput, covered with slender orange-coloured curved 
and forked scales, a few paler very small flat lateral scales, and oraoge 
and brown bristles, the colour sometimes changing with the direction 
of the light, so that the same bristle may be either light or brown, 
and some bristles apparently orange at base and brown towards the 
tip ; antennae, basal joint orange with a few small flat yellow scales, 
second joint and part of third also light, the remainder brown, verticels 
brown, pubescence yellow or whitish; palpi heavily covered with 
orange-coloured scales, the small ultimate joint and the apex of the 
penultimate dark brown, and a band of markedly outstanding brown 
scales at the apex of the antepenultimate; proboscis is brown at the 
very base, then dorsally brown and orange scales intermixed, so it is 
a dusky orange, ventrally pure orange, and therefore a bright yellow, 
a dark band at the apex and the labellae brownish-orange ; there 
are brown hairs rather plentifully scattered the whole length of the 
proboscis ; eyes dark reddish-brown, contiguous ; clypeus dark orange. 
Thorax orange-brown; there are dark spots in the chitin which give 
a more or less uneven colouring to the mesonotum, but it and the 
prothoracio lobes are covered with deep orange-coloured slender curved 
scales. The bristles on the prothoracic lobes orange and brown, at 
the wing joints.orange; scutellum dark, the mid lobe covered mostly 
with brown slender curved scales, a very few yellow ones, the lateral 
lobes with orange scales, mid lobe border bristles are gone, but were 
eight, those on the lateral lobes are orange; pleura brown with about 
six bunches of flat orange-coloured scales; metanotum nude, a soft 
whitish-orange colour. 
Abdomen with brown chitin darker on the apical portions so as to 
suggest dark apical bands not found in the scales. The scales are 
long spatulate flat scales not like the usual Culex scaling. First 
segment dark; on the second segment the scales are intermingled 
orange and brown with a suggestion of two sub-median orange spots 
and a narrow basal pale band. Third much the same but the sub- 
median spots more definite and no pale basal band. Fourth like 
third, with the sub-median spots not so definite. Fifth, orange with 
narrow basal brown band. Sixth, orange with a few scales apparently 
orange at base and brown tipped. Eighth, brown scaled, and the 
cerci are also dark. All the apical hairs are orange or brown as the 
direction of the light changes, and this is probably true of some of the 
scales too, though those with orange bases and brown tips could not 
be seen to change much. Venter with orange basal bands widening 
on the distal segments so they cover nearly the whole segment. 
Legs, coxae and trochanters with dark brown scales; femora all 
markedly mottled with orange and brown spots; tibiae light at base 
and mottled, but slightly darker than femora, the fore-legs having a 
