Genus Mueidus. 
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and occurred in the Police Hospital at Moradabad, N.W.P., and 
bit the patients very viciously.” Major Close put a 9 that 
had recently bitten in a test tube, placed on the slant, with some 
water in the bottom. She deposited a number of eggs separately, 
but when transferred to water they did not hatch out. 
It is clearly distinct, and may at once be told by the curious 
thoracic ornamentation, the anterior part of the thorax looking 
just like a butterfly’s head, the brown lateral spots resembling 
the eyes.v The venation differs from M. alternans, which it most 
approaches, and from M. mueidus it can be told by the additional 
spot on the wing fringe, as well as other structural details. The 
name was suggested by Colonel Giles. 
5. Mucidus laniger. Wiedemann (1821). 
Cuiex laniger . Wiedemann. 
(Dipt. Exoti. p. 9.) 
Entirely covered . with woolly hairs, variegated with white and 
fuscous. 
$ . Proboscis yellow, with a white hand at the apex, palpi wilh 
white and fuscous lanugo; bases of the antennae yellow, the flagella 
whitish; head covered with fuscous lanugo, with a median stripe and 
two continuous stripes on the pleurae, white; abdomen white, with a 
fuscous band on the apex of each segment. Wings with the veins with 
fuscous and white scales, the internal margin ciliated alternately fuscous 
and white; halteres whitish. The ground colour of the legs is yellow, 
but is, like the body, covered with white and fuscous lanugo; there is no 
white in the anterior tarsi, but in the hinder their apices are white ; the 
tibiae of the front legs are white at their bases and apices, whilst those of 
the middle and hinder are banded white; the femora of the fore legs 
have three, and of the hinder and middle four white bands. 
Length .—4 lines (German). 
Habitat. —Java. 
Note. —This is evidently distinct from any species I have 
seen, and clearly comes in this group. The apical fuscous bands 
to the abdomen should separate it from the other species. At 
present I have not seen any Javanese species. 
