Genus Deinocerites. DAT 
curved black scales and black border-bristles ; metanotum deep 
purplish-brown, paler in some specimens; pleurae varying from 
pale chestnut-brown to pale ochraceous. 
Abdomen steely-black with deep umber brown scales, which 
have violet reflections, no trace of banding or lateral spots; 
posterior border-bristles pale golden, short; venter pale ashy- 
grey. 
Legs unbanded brown, covered with brown scales, with 
bronzy and yellowish reflections ; coxae pale ochraceous grey ; 
femora pale beneath; hind metatarsi a little shorter than the 
hind tibiae ; ungues equal and simple, rather narrow. 
Wings with brown scales, those on the second long vein and 
its fork clavate, those on the remainder more truncated, the 
third, fork of the fourth and upper branch of the fifth with 
longer lateral ones ; first sub-marginal cell long, its stem varying 
from one-fourth to a little more than one-third the length of 
the cell, its base nearer the base of the wing than that of the 




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Wing of 9 Deinocerites cancer, Theobald. 
second posterior cell, stem of the second posterior cell much 
longer than that of the first sub-marginal, about two-thirds the 
length of the cell; posterior cross-vein longer than the mid, 
rather more than its own length distant from it; halteres 
with deep ochraceous base, black scaled knob and part of the 
stem. 
Length.—3°5 to 4°5 mm. 
g. Antennae much longer than in the 9, considerably 
longer than the whole body and much longer than the 
proboscis, not plumose, as in other Culicidae, but distinctly 
pilose ; the second joint equal in length to the two following 
joints. 
Wings with the fork-cells long, the first sub-marginal longer, 
but about the same width as the second posterior,.its base nearer 
the base of the wing than that of the latter, its stem about 
one-half the length of the cell, stem of the second posterior 
