186 Mr. Frank H. Taylor on Culicidae from Pajnia. 



C'ellia punctulata, Donitz. 

 Anopheles punctulatus, Donitz. 



,, tessellatum {nom. nud.), Theobald. 

 Myzomyia punctulata, Donitz — Giles. 

 Nyssorhynchus punctulatus, Donitz — Blanchard. 



Insekten-Borse, XVIII, p. 372 (1901); Theobald, Mon. 

 Culicid., I, p. 175 (1901); Giles, Handbook, Gnats, 2nd 

 ed., p. 287 (1902); Giles, Revis. Anop., p. 33 (1904); 

 Blanchard, Les Moust., p. 208 (1905); Theobald, Ann. 

 Mus. Nat. Hung., Ill, p. 68 (1905); Mon. Culicid., IV, 

 p. 109 (1907); V, p. 71 (1910). 



Additional Localities. Papua, Mekeo District {Dr. Breinl), 

 Lakekaniu Gold Field [Dr. Gihlin). 



Time of Captiire. Mekeo District, August 1912, Lake- 

 kamu, 18/10/10. 



Observations. The thoracic markings of this species are 

 somewhat variable, but the position of the dark patches of 

 scales and the fork-cells remain constant. 



Neosquamomyia, n. g. 



Head clothed with flat and upright forked scales ; clyjieiis with 

 loosely applied large broad scales; palpi longer than the pro- 

 boscis, of $ about one-fifth as long; proboscis slender, not as long 

 as body. 



Thorax with narrow curved scales, broad flat and narrow curved 

 ones on the prothoracic lobes ; scutellum with flat scales and narrow 

 curved ones at the base of the lobes. Wings with the first sub- 

 marginal cell longer than the second posterior cell. Abdomen 

 clothed with large closely applied flat scales. 



This forms a very distinct and marked genus easily 

 recognised by its scaled clypeus and long (^ palpi. The <^ 

 genitalia are also peculiar, the basal lobes and claspers 

 each possessing a comb composed of very stout teeth. 



Neosquamomyia breinli, n. sp. 



(Plate XVII, figs. 1-3.) 



Head dark brown. Thorax dark brown with narrow curved 

 scales. Abdomen black. Legs black, unhanded. 



$. Head dark brown densely clothed with flat brown scales 

 (with a steel-blue lustre in some lights), a fringe of large white 

 flat scales round the eyes expanding laterally into a patch, a short 

 narrow line of flat white ones on the occiput, and black upright 

 forked ones on the nape; eyes black with a thin fringe of blf^k 



