Genus Heptaphlebomyia. 337 
This genus is peculiar in having the curious line of wing 
scales forming a seventh vein. A single species only has so far 
occurred. It is clearly related to Culex, but can at once be 
separated even with a hand lens by the above character from 
any other Culicid. 
HEPTAPHLEBOMYIA SIMPLEX. 0. Sp. 
Head brown, with pale golden and grey scales ; thorax brown, 
with pale golden scales showing some ornamentation, pleurae grey ; 
proboscis and palpi brown, unbanded. Abdomen deep brown, 
unbanded, with traces of basal grey lateral spots. Legs deep 
brown, unbanded ; femora pale beneath and at the base. 
» @. Head dark brown, with narrow-curved pale golden and 
grey scales, small, flat, white lateral ones and brown upright 
forked scales ; palpi deep brown, with a few grey scales apically 
on one side, the apex somewhat clavate ; clypeus, 
proboscis, and antennae deep brown. 
Thorax deep brown, with narrow - curved 
golden scales, with some silvery-grey ones in 
front, and forming two rather irregular lateral 
patches, and also a few scattered ones in front 
of the scutellum; scutellum brown, with pale 
narrow-curved scales ; six border-bristles to the ‘g 
mid lobe ; metanotum bright ochraceous brown ; ae 193. 
pleurae pale brown and grey, with some patches ebalpet a sumplem, 
of grey scales. 
Abdomen deep brown to black, with basal lateral white 
patches, the third and fourth segments with traces of white 
basal median spots; first segment with black scales only ; 
posterior border-bristles short and pale. 
Legs deep brown, unbanded ; femora ochraceous brown, paler 
beneath and at the base; knee spot pale; ungues equal and 
simple. 
Wings with typical brown Oulea scales ; first sub-marginal 
cell longer and narrower than the second posterior cell, its base 
nearer the base of the wing than that of the second posterior, 
its stem more than one-third the length of the cell ; stem of the 
second posterior cell about two-thirds the length of the cell ; 
posterior cross-vein nearly twice its own length from the mid 
cross-vein. 
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