288 A Monograph of Culicidae. 
eyes ; a patch of black upright forked-scales near the nape; palpi 
small, deep brown ; proboscis deep brown ; basal joint of antennae 
deep brown inside, testaceous outside. 
Thorax brown, clothed with narrow-curved scales, giving it a 
rich brown appearance, and ornamented as follows: A broad 
lateral area of silvery white curved 
scales, very dense and closely applied 
to the tergum, two narrow median 
parallel golden scaled lines in front, 
converging to form a single line behind, 
not quite reaching the bare space in 
front of the scutellum, and a pale line 
on each side not reaching the front of 
4 the mesonotum ; in front of the scutellum 
Fig. 159. is a patch of rather broad curved creamy 
Howardine Waikert. “Theobald. "scales and “very “narrow -curwee ee 
brown ones; scutellum brown, with 
narrow-curved brown scales (partly denuded) ; metathorax black ; 
pleurae bright brown, with five silvery white spots ; prothoracic 
lobes with silvery white scales ; thoracic bristles dark in front, 
golden behind. 
Abdomen black, with black scales, the first and second seg- 
ments unadorned, the third, fourth, fifth, and sixth with median 
creamy basal patches, the last two segments with basal silvery- 
white scales ; the segments with lateral silvery spots, those at 
the base extend along the whole side of the segments, the apical 
segments with the patches basal ; venter pale scaled at the base ; 
the other segments with basal pale bands, narrowest on the 
apical segments. : 
Legs (broken), fore and mid pair deep brown, unbanded ; 
venter of the femora pale creamy in all the legs, the metatarsi of 
the hind legs with a broad white basal band (probably also the 
tarsi). Coxae pale. Ungues equal and simple. 
Wings with brown scales, the lateral ones long and thin ; 
fork-cells small ; first sub-marginal a little longer, but no narrower 
than the second posterior cell, its stem more than half the length 
of the cell, its base slightly nearer the base of the wing ; stem of 
the second posterior nearly as long as the cell; posterior cross- 
vein more than its own length behind the mid cross-yvein. 
Halteres with pale stem and fuscous knob. 
Length.—2°5 mm. 
Habitat. Jamaica (Dr. Grabham). 

