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Rh Malay Peninsula, and does not seem to occur in South India. Much darker and larger than the former.

A single species of this genus occurs in India. The chief character of the genus as modified by me is the presence of dense thick elongated wing scales either ending obliquely, or bluntly pointed.

Thorax deep chestnut-brown, with scattered golden scales, almost white over the roots of the wings. Abdomen black, with apical creamy bands. Legs ochraceous, Avith black and white scales, giving them a mottled appearance ; tarsi basally pale banded on the fore legs, apically and basally on the mid and hind legs.

Length of J 4 '5 mm. ; of ? 5 mm.

Habitat. Madras and X.W. India.

Observations. This banded proboscis species can at once be told from other Indian Culicid se by the dense wing scales.

Palpi short in both sexes. Separated from Acdcs on account of the broad asymmetrical wing scales like Panoplites. A single species only occurs in this genus.

Thorax brown, with scattered creamy-yellow scales in the middle, and with white scales at the sides and behind ; scutellum ochraceous, with black scales at the sides and creamy ones in the middle ; abdomen brown, with two patches of creamy scales apically and two patches of white scales basally, apical segments yellow scaled. Legs banded, covered with creamy, purple, and white scales, apices of mid femora with a dense tuft of dark scales, and sometimes the hind legs are tufted.