60 A Monograph of Culreidae. 
CYCLOLEPPTERON MEDIOPUNCTATUS. n.sp. (Lutz MS.). 
(Plate VIL.) 
Thorax reddish-brown, with a grey sheen, with two black 
eye-like spots and a large dark spot in front of and extending 
on to the scutellum, the mesothorax spotted with deep reddish- 
brown and with pale scales. Abdomen deep brown, with golden 
hairs and lateral scale tufts. Palpi banded with black and gold. 
Legs deep brown, spotted and banded with golden yellow, the 
last tarsal segment of all the legs yellow. Wings with black 
and white scales, the black forming three prominent costal spots 
on tinged ground, several small white costal spots. 
6. Head deep brown, with very short creamy upright 
forked scales in the middle, the edge of the eyes grey towards 
the middle of the head, brown laterally, two large tufts of long 
golden hairs projecting forwards. Antennae banded with pale 
brown and grey, with flaxen brown plumes ; palpi with the two 
apical joints swollen, golden yellow with narrow basal black 
bands, the rest of the palpi black, with patches of golden scales, 
especially towards the base, where the scales become dense, hair 
tufts golden and flaxen, with shades of brown; proboscis brown, 
thin curved downwards. 
Thorax pale reddish-brown, with a greyish sheen, rather large 
deep reddish-brown spots in the middle and a broad line of 
smaller ones on each side, about the middle of the mesonotum 
on each side a prominent black eye-like spot and another larger 
one at the back of the mesonotum extending over the middle of 
the scutellum, thorax clothed with scattered golden hair-like 
curved scales and a few rather flat white ones over the roots 
of the wings ; metanotum pale brown ; pleurae brown, with two 
grey curious twisted marks. 
Abdomen deep blackish-brown, with golden hairs, each 
segment with apical lateral tufts of black and golden scales and 
ventral scales, especially on the apical segments. 
Legs deep brown, spotted and banded with rich golden 
yellow, the spotting most pronounced on the femora and tibiae, 
the banding on the metatarsi and tarsi, on the former irregular, on 
the latter broad and more pronounced, but also showing spotting 
on the dark areas ; last tarsal segment of all the legs yellow. 
Wings with black and white scales and with the membrane 
with three brown patches on the costal border. The black scales 
