Horváth Géza (szerk.): A Magyar Természettudományi Múzeum évkönyve 3. (Budapest 1905)
Theobald, F. V.: A catalogue of the Culicidae in the Hungarian National Museum with description of new genera and species
116 FRKD. V. THEOBALD lateral triangular silvery spots. Proboscis of cf nearly as long as tbe whole body. cf. Head black completely clothed With flat scales showing violet or black in color according to the light, and in certain lights a dull silvery patch between the eyes ; antennae, palpi, clypeus and proboscis black, the palpi very short, the clypeus showing a dull grey sheen. Thorax shiny black clothed with irregularly arranged small bronzy spindle-shaped scales and large flat violet, blue and green scales, a line of the silvery scales in front of the root of each wing at the side and in some lights there appears an apple-green line behind; the large flat scales are most dense just behind the root of the wings where they are very large and project outwards and also just before the scutellum : prothoracic lobes with flat various shaded scales and there are numerous short stout bristles projecting forward from the mesonotum, over the head ; scutellum testaceous with flat black scales : border-bristles black, four large and some small ones on the mid lobe ; metanotum brown with a dense patch of short black bristles, radiating outwards; pleurae reddish-brown with patches of silvery white scales. Abdomen deep violet, almost black in some lights with silvery white triangular basal lateral spots, apex swollen and very bristly ; claspers very small and delicate, pale grey. Legs bronzy brown, deep ochreous at their base, the coxae having a patch of silvery scales ; venter of femora paler than remainder of the legs. "Wings (Plate II) with dense brown scales, the first submarginal cell longer but very slightly narrower than the second posterior cell, its base slightly nearer the base of the wing than that of the second posterior cell, its stem about half the length of the cell, stem of the second posterior nearly as long as the cell ; posterior cross-vein about the same size as the mid cross-vein and about one and a half times its own length distant from it; scales as shown in the figure plate III. Halteres rather stout, stem pale, knob fuscous. Length : 4 mm. Habitat: Singapore ( BÍRÓ , 1902). Observations : Described from a perfect male. It most nearly approaches ] }. tongirostris THEOB., but can at once be told by the shorter proboscis and unadorned legs. The male claspers very small and pallid.
