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380 border and one smaller basal one : third long vein dark. Palpi of 2 thin, brown with two narrow pale bands and a pale apex; of (J brown, the last two joints swollen, the penultimate and antepen- ultimate with apical pale bands, the apex of antepenultimate and the penultimate with golden-brown hair-tufts.

FIG. 2. Male genitalia of A. culicifacies.

Length of $ 3'8 mm. ; of $ 3'5 to 4 mm.

Halitat. Hoshangabad (C.P.), and Behars ; Lahore, Punjaub.

Observations. A very distinct species. The abnormal habit of assuming the position of Culex when resting should also identify it when alive. The abdomen when fresh seems to have conspicuous banding. The wing-fringe in the ? type is unspotted, but this is due to fading ; fresh specimens have three spots.

The male genitalia (fig. 2) are very peculiar.*

Thorax fawn coloured, with two large eye-like black spots ; the front with longish white, the rest with creamy curved scales. Abdo- men ashy-brown with numerous scales and dull golden hairs and lateral dark tufts of scales as in A. pukherrimus, Theobald. Legs banded and marked with dark brown and yellow, some of the tarsi basally brown banded. Costa creamy-yellow with four black spots and numerous small ones over the wing field.

Length. 3 mm.

Habitat. Malay Peninsula, East Indies (Sumatra and Java) ; Calcutta.

Observations. Very like A. pukherrimus, and closely related to it, being densely scaly, and with similar lateral apical tufts to the abdominal segments, but easily separated by the two thoracic ocelli and the absence of white hind tarsi.

was described first, that name stands. The $ type of culicifacies is a $ A. Turkhudi, Listen.
 * The ? type of culicifacies is the same as Giles's $ Listoni; as culicifacies