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in the middle and creamy grey upright fork scales, which 
become deep brown at the sides ; palpi rather long, thick, densely- 
scaled with deep brown scales and with black bristles ; proboscis 
deep brown, almost black at the tip; clypeus deep brown; 
antennae brown. 
Thorax deep brown, with two broad paler grey median parallel 
lines and a lateral curved one on each side showing on the 
denuded surface ; covered with narrow-curved rich brown scales 
and ornamented with rather creamy ones (too denuded to make 
out the ornamentation), there are two pale spots on the 
middle of the mesonotum, paler scales at the sides and some in 
front ; traces of a narrow dark curved lateral line may be 
seen with the lens in some lights along the basal half of the 
mesonotum ; scutellum brown, with narrow-curved scales ; 
- metanotum bright brown, with a median dark line; pleurae 
pale brown and ashy-grey, with two or more patches of white 
scales. 
Abdomen covered with dusky blackish-brown scales, unbanded 
above, bet with small basal lateral white spots, most prominent 
on the apical segments ; border-bristles dull brown ; first segment 
mostly covered with dusky brown scales; venter with very 
broad creamy white basal bands, in some segments taking up 
more than five-sixths of the segment. 
Legs brown, unbanded, with a distinct ochraceous tinge 
showing through the scales, which are mostly brown ; the femora 
have pale yellowish scales scattered on the ventral surface, and 
there are also a few ochraceous scales in somewhat spotted 
arrangement, knee spot and apex of tibiae yellowish, femora and 
tibiae bristly ; ungues equal and simple. 
Wings with typical brown Culex scales; first sub-marginal 
cell about the same width, but a little longer than the second 
posterior cell, its base nearer the apex of the wing than that 
of the latter, stem rather more than half the length of the cell, 
about the same length as that of the second posterior cell ; 
posterior cross-vein in a line with the mid cross-vein ; halteres 
with a pallid stem and fuscous knob. 
Length.—7 mm. 
Time of capture.— December. 
Habitat.—Dindings, Straits Settlements. 
Observations.—Described from a single @ in which the 
thorax is unfortunately partly denuded, so that the scale 
ornamentation cannot be made out. This large gnat is a very 
