52 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



Pseudoskusea nigrotarsis, n. sp. — Female. Head very dark, covered 

 with very dark brown flat scales, a pale (grayish) lateral stripe, no fork 

 scales ; antennjB brown, verticels and pubescence brown, basal joint brown, 

 with a iew small brown flat scales ; palpi dark with dark brown scales ; 

 proboscis the same ; eyes brown ; clypeus brown. 



Thorax dark ; prothoracic lobes dark brown, with dark brown bristles ; 

 mesonotum covered with dark brown slender curved scales having golden 

 reflections, dark brown bristles, apparently two rows besides those over 

 the wing-joint ; sculellum dark with curved scales, as on the mesonotum ; 

 pleura brown with patches of long flat spatulate white scales and dark 

 brown bristles ; metanotum very dark brown and shiny. 



Abdomen dark, covered with very dark, almost black, scales, and 

 white 7n id- segment bands not prolonged into lateral spots, light apical 

 bristles. The light bands are grayish, and not so well developed on the 

 more caudad segments. Venter dark scaled. 



Legs : coxae and trochanters light, with light scales and dark bristles; 

 femora with dark brown scales dorsally, grayish ventrally, and a small gray 

 apical spot, remainder of the legs entirely dark brown; ungues on fore and 

 mid legs equal, and each with a small tooth, hind ungues simple. 



Wings clear, with brown scales, the median small, truncate, the 

 lateral lanceolate, and the ventral long, slender and slightly curved; cells 

 short, bases about on a line, first submarginal a little longer and narrower 

 than the second posterior, the stems nearly the same length, and approxi- 

 mately as long as the cells ; supernumerary and mid cross-veins meet, 

 posterior cross-vein about one-half the mid and three times its own length 

 distant; halteres with light stem, knob dusky. 



Length, 4.5 mm. Habitat : Infanta, Tayabas, Philippine Islands. 

 Taken October, 1907. 



The abdominal markings at first suggested Skicsea futierea^ Theob., 

 but the fore and mid ungues bear the small tooth noted for Pseudoskusea. 

 Described from one perfect specimen sent by Dr. Warriner in a collection 

 mostly composed of Stegomyla calopus and Culex fatigans, varied by a 

 couple of Myxomyta Thor?iionii and two or three of M. Ludlowii, 



In the description of Cellia flava in the January number (page 32, 

 third line from bottom) the phrase "basal joint testaceous" should have 

 appeared as part of the description of the antennas, not of the palpi. The 

 mosquito was taken at Camp Wilhelm, Tayabas (not "Tayubar"). A few 

 other errors are obvious. 



