390 
A Monograph of Culicidae. 
lateral spots. Legs dark brown, a white garter-like band 
near the apex of the femora; metatarsi and tarsi with white 
basal bands. 
9 . Head brown, covered w 7 ith golden and white scales, the 
white scales especially in the middle, and a small patch of flat 
white ones on each side; behind, on each side of the middle line, 
is a patch of dark brown or black upright forked scales, which 
also pass forwards; eyes purplish black, with silvery lustre ; 
antennae dark brown, with faint narrow pale bands, basal joint 
and base of second joint testaceous ; palpi black scaled v T ith the 
fourth joint with a ring of white scales at the base and the small 
apical fifth joint also white scaled ; proboscis dark brown, with a 
few grey scales towards the base, apex quite black. 
Thorax deep umber brown, with white and golden scales in 
the majority of specimens, showing no ornamentation, but, when 
fresh, the white scales are seen to be symmetrically arranged ; 
a central very narrow bare line runs back to near the scutellum, 
where it ends in a bare spade-shaped patch, which has two 
patches of narrow curved white scales in front, and two of 
white scales at the base near the scutellum, a small oblique line 
of pale curved scales on each side in front and traces of two 
others farther back, and which, according to Skuse, in fresh 
specimens, are hook-shaped, as shown in his figure ; there is also 
another patch above the root of the wings on each side ; scutellum 
testaceous brown, with three patches of pale, thin, curved scales; 
metanotum deep browm, testaceous at the sides; pleurae dark 
reddish-brown, with patches of white scales. 
Abdomen covered with deep brown almost black scales, with 
sometimes pale brown reflections, the bases of the segments each 
with a patch of white scales, not quite forming a band ; some¬ 
times, according to Skuse, the white scales are entirely absent; 
posterior borders and sides with yellowish hairs; in some 
specimens there are indistinct white lateral spots, the lateral 
white spots being centrally disposed ; venter brown, with thick 
white basal bands. 
Legs w T ith the femora pale at the base, dark scaled towards 
the apex ; just before the apex, which is very dark, is a pale or 
white band, extreme tip yellow to almost white; tibiae covered 
with purplish-black scales with pale hairs; fore metatarsi with 
basal pale bands, also the first two tarsal joints, last two with 
purplish-black scales only ; mid legs the same ; hind legs with 
their metatarsi and first three tarsal joints very broadly banded 
