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asily be placed in Grabhamia, from which it is separated by the small 

 flat scutellar scales. 



Genus LOPHOCERAOMYIA, nov. gen. 



Head clothed with narrow-curved scales and numerous upright 

 forked ones. Palpi short in the $ ; in the $ longer than the proboscis or 

 only half its length. Proboscis swollen apically. Antenna normal in the 

 $ , verticillate and pilose ; in the $ plumose, some of the verticillate 

 whorls modified into variously formed organs, apparently formed out of 

 modified verticillate hairs. Thorax; clothed with narrow curved scales, 

 also the scutellum. Abdomen and legs normal. Scales on the veins 

 on the apical area of the wings dense, the lateral vein scales broader 

 than in Culex, those on the first long vein short and rather broad, upper 

 costal border spiny, no lateral vein scales on the basal areas. 



This genus can be easily told on the $ by the curious antennal 

 organs and in both sexes by the wing scales from Culex which it ap- 

 proaches in general appearance. I am also describing two new species 

 in this genus from New Guinea and India in the catalogue of Culicid 



Be 



in the National Museum, Budapest. 



LOPHOCERAOMYIA UNIFORMIS, nov. Sp. (figs. 3, 4). 



Head brown with a grey border around the eyes ; proboscis deep 

 broad slightly swollen apically ; palpi deep brown. Thorax tawny brown 

 pale at the sides ; pleura grey, green or pale brown. Abdomen deep 

 chocolate brown, unhanded ; venter dull ochreous. Legs long deep 

 brown, except for pale coxa and venter of femora. Wings transparent ; 

 fork-cells small ; male palpi brown, acuminate, longer than the 

 proboscis. 



$ Head brown, clothed with narrow-curved grey scales and numerous 

 upright black forked ones behind, becoming fewer and browner near the 

 front, thus covering most of the grey-scaled head and giving it a brown 

 appearance except around the eyes where the grey scales only exist ; 

 clypeus testaceous ; proboscis black, swollen apically, about two-thirds 

 the length of the whole body, labellce testaceous ; palpi thin and rather 

 long, about one-fifth the length of the proboscis, black scaled ; antennae 

 brown with narrow pale bands and black verticillate hairs. 



Thorax shiny brown, clothed with narrow-curved tawny brown scales 

 which become much smaller and almost black just before the scutellum 

 bristles long and black, scales at the sides somewhat paler in certain 

 lights ; scutellum pale brown with small narrow-curved dark scales * 



