iy A Monograph of Culicidae. 
of the fifth, a pale area runs across the bases of the fork-cells. 
Legs brown, femora pale beneath ; tibiae with broad apical white 
spot ; tarsi with traces of pale basal banding. 
2. Head deep brown, with narrow-curved, pale creamy 
yellow scales, and small flat lateral ones, with pale brown 
upright forked scales ; palpi deep brown ; antennae brown, with 
ferruginous basal joint ; clypeus deep brown ; proboscis brown. 
Thorax deep brown, deep ferruginous in the middle, with 
scanty narrow-curved, pale golden scales, arranged somewhat 
in irregular groups, two more or less prominent pale patches 
being seen in the middle, with numerous black hairs over the 
roots of the wings ; scutellum brown, with three distinct patches 
of pale creamy curved scales, rather broader than those on the 
mesothorax ; metanotum deep brown ; pleurae deep brown, with 
creamy scales in patches. 
Abdomen deep brown, with narrow, basal, pale creamy-white 
bands, with dull golden posterior border-bristles and numerous 
lateral bristles ; venter mostly clothed with pale creamy scales, 
some of the segments with a median lateral dark spot. 
Wings with the veins with long dense lateral brown scales, 
particularly in certain areas, giving it a spotted appearance, with 
a distinct pale pellucid band at the base of the fork-cells ; the 
first long vein has all dark scales; the two branches of the first 
sub-marginal cell with long lateral scales particularly dark at 

Fig. 82. 
Wing of Theobaldia incidens. (2.) Thomson. 
the base of the fork, forming a spot, stem pale up to the cross- 
veins, then densely dark scaled, forming another spot; third 
long vein with deep brown median and pale lateral scales ; 
second posterior cell with long lateral brown scales, forming a 
dark spot at the base of the cell, the stem pale up to the cross- 
