456 AUSTRALIAN CULICID^E, i., 



Stkgomyia pseudoscutellaris Theobald. 



Entomologist, xliii., No.565, p.l56(1910). 

 Hab. — Samarai Island, Papua{Dr. Breinl). 

 This species was originally described from Suva, Fiji ; and is 

 said, by Bahr, to be a transmitter of Filaria. 



Stegomyia hilli, n.sp. 

 (PI. XXXV., fig. 5.) 



Head black, with a line of white, upright-forked scales at the 

 base. Thorax clothed with dark scales. Abdomen black. Legs 

 })lack. 



9. Head black, clothed with blacky flat and upright-forked 

 scales, with a narrow line of upriglit-forked ones at the base, and 

 a row of small flat white ones bordering the eyes; antennae dark 

 brown, verticillate hairs black, second segment clothed with small, 

 brown, flat scales, basal lobes brown; palpi slender, clothed with 

 black scales. 



Thorax dark brown, clothed with small, brown, spindle-shaped 

 scales; scutellum light brown, clothed with brown, flat scales, bor- 

 der-bristles black ; metanotum brown, prothoracic lobes fairly pro- 

 minent and clothed w^th small, pale, flat scales, and a few dark 

 bristles. Halteres with pale stems and dark knobs. 



Abdomen clothed with purplish-black scales, first segment with 

 a few pale bristles in addition, posterior border-bristles pale and 

 very short, apex of abdomen with a dense tuft of black bristles, 

 segments five to seven with comparatively large, creamy, apical, 

 lateral spots; venter creamy-white, apex dark and clothed with 

 dark bristles. 



Legs purplish-black, femora pale beneath except the apex; 

 ungues equal and simple. 



Wings with the costa clothed with dark brown scales, veins 

 clothed with flat, comparatively broad, brown scales only; first 

 fork-cell longer and slightly narrower than the second, base of the 

 former nearer the base of the wing than that of the latter ; stem of 

 the first fork-cell scarcely half the length of the cell, stem of the 

 second fork-cell about two-thirds the length of its cell; anterior 



