1910.] F. V. Theobald : Report on CulicidcB. 21 



44. Culicada sitknaensis, sp. nov. 



Thorax ornamented with rich brown and dull golden yellow 

 scales, the latter forming a curved line on each side in front and 

 two rather indistinct median lines in front, the rich brown showing 

 up as four obscure spots. Head dull golden 3^ellow with two dark 

 spots. Abdomen deep brown with basal creamy bands and large 

 basal creamy lateral spots. Legs brown, pale at the base, with 

 narrow basal yellow bands. Wings with a brownish yellow tinge 



9 . Head dark brown, with small narrow-curved golden scales 

 in the middle, dark upright forked .scales behind, rich ochreous 

 ones in front, a patch of dark flat scales at the sides bordered 

 along the eyes with pale creamy scales and flat creamy ones placed 

 still more laterally, the pale scales bordering the ej^es are small 

 narrow-curved ones; chaetae between the eyes bright golden brown, 

 followed by some darker ones at the sides ; clypeus, palpi and pro- 

 boscis deep brown; antennae brown, basal segment bright golden 

 yellow, with some small pale flat scales, base of second segment 

 pale testaceous. 



Thorax deep rich brown, clothed with golden 3-ellow and rich 

 brown curved scales, the former as two obscure curved lateral lines 

 and two broad median ones (the latter almost in one) and scattered 

 irregularly over the posterior portion; a few paler ones in front of 

 the roots of the wings and some short pale golden and brown chsetse ; 

 supra-alar chaetae brown; scutellum brown with small narrow- 

 curved pale scales; metanotum almost black; pleurae deep brown, 

 with patches of pale flat scales and tufts of golden brown chaetae. 



Abdomen deep brown, with basal yellow curved bands, and 

 yellow prominent lateral spots ; posterior border bristles pale 

 golden; venter mostly clothed with large flat yellowish scales, 

 almost white towards the base. Legs brown, femora pale ven- 

 trally, metatarsi and all the tarsi with narrow pale yellow bands, 

 pale knee spots, femora and tibiae spinose, spines dusky and golden ; 

 ungues all equal and uniserrate. 



Wings with short fork-cells ; the first submarginal longer and 

 narrower than the second posterior, its stem about two-thirds the 

 length of the cell ; its base nearly level with that of the second 

 posterior cell ; stem of the latter as long as the cell ; posterior 

 cross-vein longer than the mid, nearly twice its own length distant 

 from it; the base of the subcostal and first long vein prominentlv 

 densely scaled with black scales. Halteres with ochreous stems, 

 fuscous knobs with pale creamy apical scales. 



Length 4 to 5 mm. 



Habitat vSukna, 500 feet, Darjiling district, E. Himalayas 

 {Annandale). 



Time of capture 1 and 2-vii-o8. 



Observations. — Described from four perfect 9 's. It comes 

 near Culicada nipponii, Theobald, but can be told by the absence 

 of pale apical abdominal scales and median grey scales and dark 

 flat-scaled lateral cephalic patches. The abdomen in all four is 



