386 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Xov., 'oq 



Two new Philippine Culicidae. 



BY FREDERICK KNAB, Washington, D. C. 

 Mansonia chrysogona n. sp. 



Integument ocher-yellow, the vestiture nearly throughout 

 of golden and yellow scales. 



Female. Proboscis moderately long and stout, uniform, about as 

 long as the abdomen, clothed with deep yellow scales, the tip black. 

 P'alpi about one-third the length of the proboscis, with many hairs and 

 clothed with shining deep yellow scales, the tips black. Clypeus ochre- 

 ous brown, nude. Antennae with the tori small, ochreous marked with 

 brown ; second joint yellow, the succeeding ones brownish. Occiput 

 clothed with narrow curved golden scales and bearing many golden 

 bristles, the vertex with deep yellow, long, erect, forked scales. 



Mesonotum ocher-yellow with broad, brown, double median stripe 

 and a brown patch over the roots of the wings; the vestiture dense, of 

 narrow curved golden scales, with three narrow longitudinal furrows 

 medianly ; antescutellar space bare. Scutellum with scales like those of 

 the mesonotum and with a group of golden bristles on each lobe. 

 Pleura yellow marked with brown, with yellow setae and a few pale 

 scales. 



Abdomen cylindrical, truncate at the tip, the segments with apical 

 rows of yellow hairs, the tip with numerous yellow bristles ; the integu- 

 ment ocher-yellow, the vestiture above and below of broad, deep yel- 

 low, shining scales. 



Wings hyaline, the scales along the veins shining ocher-yellow, nar- 

 rowly lanceolate ; stem of the second marginal cell about as long as the 

 cell ; base of the second posterior cell nearer the base of wing than 

 the base of the second marginal cell ; basal cross-vein more than its own 

 length behind the anterior cross-vein. Halteres yellow. 



Legs slender, clothed with yellow shining scales; hind legs with the 

 apices of the femora and the bases and apices of the tibiae black ; hind 

 tarsi with the apical half of the second and all the succeeding joints 

 brownish with yellow luster. Claws equal and simple. 



Length : Body 4.5 mm., wing 5 mm. 



Male. Coloration similar to the female. Palpi long, exceeding the 

 proboscis by nearly the length of the last joint; last two joints and 

 apex of the long joint somewhat thickened and clothed with numerous 

 long yellow hairs; vestiture yellow, the last two joints and the apex 

 of the long joint dark scaled. Antennae densely plumose, the hairs 

 brownish and golden. Abdomen depressed, broadened behind the mid- 

 dle ; the lateral ciliation abundant, rather long, yellow. All the femora 

 with dark apices ; tarsi of all the legs brownish. 



Claws: 2.0-2. o-o.o. Length: Body 4.5 mm., wing 4 mm. 



