372 A Monograph of Culicidae. 
at the tibio-metatarsal and tarsal joints, chiefly basal, but involving 
more or less both sides of the joints. Fore ungues of the 9 
uniserrated, equal; hind ones equal and simple ; ungues of the 
fore and mid legs in £ unequal, uniserrated. 
9 . Head brown, with narrow curved pale creamy scales, 
upright forked bright brown ones in the middle, darker ones at 
the sides, laterally are flat pale scales along the eyes, but dark 
behind ; eyes deep purplish-black, with narrow pale creamy scaled 
borders; clypens dark brown; proboscis very dark brown at the base, 
black at the apex, with a broad, well-defined pale yellow median 
band; palpi densely scaled with black scales and a few grey ones, 
white scaled at the apices ; antennae brown, with narrow pale bands 
at the verticils, hairs dark brown, basal joint dark brown, deep 
ferruginous on the outside; base of second joint dull ferruginous. 
Thorax deep umber-brown, with narrow curved bronzy scales 
and a few creamy-yellow ones, especially in front of the mesothorax, 
and dotted over the whole surface; there are also small narrow 
hair-like black scales in front of the scutellum, like those on the 
C 
a, Abdominal ornamentation ; b, clypeus and 
palpus (?); c, pi’oboscis ; d, hind leg; 
e, hind ungues of the $. 
mid lobe of the scutellum; over the roots of the wings are 
numerous long black bristles, and in front of them long golden- 
brown bristles; scutellum brown, darker in the middle, with 
narrow black scales on the middle lobe and a few pale ones, also 
