72 A Monograph of Culicidae. 
long projecting median tufts (Fig. 46, I.a); antennae brown, 
basal joint fawn coloured, next three or four joints with small 
grey scales ; palpi brown, with pale bands at the junction of the 
second and third and third and fourth joints, apex with a broad 
pale band, the apical and middle, pale bands are nearer together 
than the middle and basal ones. Proboscis brown. 
Thorax fawn coloured in the middle, with deep brown sides, 
the pale median area having a deep brown median line, traces of 
a parallel line on each side of it in front and others behind ; the 
surface, especially at the junction of the pale and dark areas, 
covered with narrow-curved flat creamy-grey scales ; a dense mass 
of them project over the head; scutellum pallid, with narrow- 
curved scales ; metanotum deeper brown ; pleurae pale chestnut- 
brown, fading into grey. 
Abdomen brown, mottled with deeper brown, with a few 
scattered pale golden hairs. 
Legs brown ; coxae grey, femora and tibiae with a pale band 
at their junction, also at the tibial and metatarsal joint; tarsi 
unbanded ; ungues small, equal and simple. 
Wings with narrow small lanceolate lateral scales ; the costa 
with five black unequal spots, one basal, separated by creamy 
areas, the middle black spot much the largest, the two apical 
ones of nearly equal length, the fourth black costal spot is long, 

Fig. 47. 
P. Palestinensis. (2.) Nn. sp. 
(Twotvariations!in wing markings.) 
and is nearly broken in two by a few white scales on its lower 
portion, but these do not reach the top of the vein; the two 
apical black spots are carried evenly on to the first long vein, the 
third evenly on to the sub-costal, but only as a smaller median 
