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parallel stripes clothed with golden scales, the central one forked 
posteriorly, surrounding a clear fcrown space in front of the 
scutellum : on each side is also a lateral curved golden-scaled 
line. Over the root of the wing is a bunch of bright reddish- 
brown bristles directed upwards, other black bristles are also 
on the thorax; metanotum deep chestnut-brown, pleurae with 
silvery-white puncta. 
Abdomen black, with evidently the remains of white basal 
banding, posterior border of each segment with a band of pale 
bristles and with white lateral spots. Ventrally with basal 
white bands and white hairs. 
Wines with black scales ; testaceous at the roots. First 
sub-marginal cell longer than the second posterior cell, its stalk 
only about half as long as the fork. Halteres with dark knobs 
and pale stems. Posterior legs with a tuft of bristles at the 
base, coxae and trochanters white, femora pale beneath near the 
base, dark brown above, then completely brown except at the 
tip, which has a distinct yellowish-white ring ; tibiae clothed with 
deep black scales ; metatarsi and also the first two tarsi with 
basal white bands, about equal to half the length of the joints, 
last two tarsal joints black ; mid legs with a broad white knee 
spot, and the metatarsi and first tarsal joint basally white 
banded, other tarsi black ; fore legs black with a pale knee spot. 
Length .—5 to 6 mm. 
Habited. —Tokyo, Japan (C. H. B. Woods) (8. 3. 99). 
Time of capture .—June and July. 
Observations .—Described from a series sent by Mr. Woods 
from Japan, all 9 s - If' is an easily recognised species by the 
five narrow golden-scaled thoracic lines. I have some little 
doubt as to whether or not these Japanese mosquitoes are the 
Cidex aureostriedus of Doleschall, described by him from Amboina ; 
but as he states that the hind borders of the abdominal segments 
of C. aureostriedus are white, the hind legs with four white tarsal 
bands and the two side stripes of the thorax oblique, and not 
running the whole length of the thorax, I provisionaily take 
them as belonging to a distinct species, until I see Doleschall’s 
type or have the opportunity of examining the Amboina 
mosquitoes. A description of C. aureostriatus is here given : - 
