Genus Ficalbia. 297 
FICALBIA MINIMA. Theobald. 
Uranotaenia minima. Theobald. 
(Mono. Culicid. II., p. 262, 1901.) 
This species, which occurs in South India, has not been again 
received since the second volume of the Monograph went to 
press, and there are no further notes to add. It is removed 
from the genus Uranotaenia, in which I placed it provisionally 
on account of the venation and mesothoracic scale ornamentation. 
FICALBIA SIMPLEX. n. Sp. 
Head covered with dark flat scales; thorax dark brown 
and very bristly ; pleurae pale ochraceous; metanotum deep 
brown in the middle, pale ochraceous around. Abdomen dusky 
brown, unbanded and unspotted, venter ochraceous, Legs deep 
brown, unbanded, femora pale at the base and to some extent 
beneath. 
6- Head covered with flat dusky brown scales, with a violet 
tinge and with a few small black upright forked scales behind ; 
proboscis black, bent at right angles to the body; antennae 
brown, basal joint large and globular, black, with a few small 
curved hairs on the inner side. 
Thorax deep brown, with narrow-curved deep bronzy brown 
scales with numerous large black bristles, especially over the 
roots of the wings; scutellum covered with flat black scales, 
those on the lateral lobes forming distinct lateral tufts, median 
lobe with six border-bristles ; pleurae very pale ochraceous ; 
metanotum deep brown in the middle, with a pale ochraceous 
border. 
The abdomen is entirely clothed with dusky brown scales, 
without any traces of banding or spotting, border-bristles rather 
pale ; venter more or less dull ochraceous. 
Legs deep brown, coxae pallid, base and venter of femora 
pale, especially of the hind legs; ungues of the fore and mid 
legs very unequal, the larger sickle-shaped and both simple, the 
hind ungues equal, small and simple. 
Wings with short fork-cells, but longer than in Uranotaenia ; 
the first sub-marginal longer and very slightly narrower than the 
second posterior, their bases nearly level, their stems longer than 
the cells; posterior cross-vein about three times its own length 
