324 A Monograph of Culicidae. 
SABETHES REMIPES. Wiedemann. 
(Mono. Culicid. I., p. 248, 1901, Theobald.) 
3d. Head entirely clothed with flat azure-blue scales ; palpi 
narrow, acuminate ; proboscis violet, yellow beneath, except at 
the base and apex, with two or three bristles on the ventral 

Fig. 183. ee 
Sabethes remipes. oo. 
P, Proboscis ; Pa, palpi; a, ventral chaetae. 
surface at the base. Antennae with the grey segments, verticillate 
hairs rich brown, long, the antennae being almost plumose 
(fig. 180, 3). hae | 
Thorax brown, covered with flat violet-blue scales, longer and 
narrower in front of the scutellum, darker in the middle, in some 
lights forming a broad median darkened area ; metanotum deep 
blackish-brown, with long black chaetae ; pleurae brown, with 
- flat silvery white scales. 
Abdomen metallic blue above, with large lateral pale golden 
and silvery spots on the four basal segments, extending the whole 
length of the segments, and seen to some extent on the apical 
ones ; venter pale golden and metallic, with a dense ventral tuft 
of black bristles. 

Fig. 184. 
Sabethes remipes. 
a, Fore, b, mid, and c, hind & ungues. 
Legs black, with metallic violet and purple reflections ; the 
mid pair with a large paddle on the tibia and metatarsus of a 
