188 Mr. Frank H. Taylor on Culicidae from Papua. 



from it. Halteres with basal half of stalk creamy white, remainder 

 black scaled. 



Length 6 mm. 



<^. Similar to $. Antennae plumose, about two-thirds as long 

 as the proboscis, fifteen-jointed, segments three to thirteen with 

 apical half pale, basal half and the whole of the last two segments 

 brown, tlie apical segment with long dark brown basal hairs, pen- 

 ultimate segment with the basal third nude; palpi longer than 

 proboscis, four-jointed, second very long, third and fourth with 

 short sj)arse hairs on the inner margin, longer on the third, apical 

 segment with two fairly long apical chaetae; proboscis slightly 

 more hairy than in the $; abdomen with venter densely clothed 

 with hairs; genitalia heavily clothed with dark brown hairs; the 

 basal lobes bear, towards the centre of their inner margin, a small 

 comb composed of strong brown, blunt cliitinous teeth, which 

 become gradually shorter towards the posterior end of the lobe; 

 the apical half of the clasper also bears a similar comb in which 

 the teeth gradually increase in length towards the apex of the 

 clasper; wings not as densely scaled as in the $; ungues of fore 

 legs very unequal, the smaller thin, the larger stout, about twice 

 the length of the smaller, with a fairly largo tooth, mid ungues 

 unequal, slight, each witli a small tooth, hind equal and rather 

 small, the inner with a small tooth. 



Length 5'5 mm. 



Habitat. Papua, Milne Bay {Dr. Breinl), Mungana 

 {Dr. Gihlin). 



Time of Capture. July (Milne Bay), 2/7/10 (Mungana). 



Observations. Described from (^ and $ specimens bred 

 by Dr. Breinl from larvae taken from pools and hollow 

 logs in the vicinity of native villages. It is a very marked 

 species, easily distinguished by the scaled clypeus, long (^ 

 palpi, and the ungues of $. 



Slegornyia fasciata, Fabricius. 



Syst. Antliatorum, 36, 13 (1805); Rob. Desvoidy, Mem. 

 Soc. d'Hist. Nat. d. Paris, III, p. 406, 14; p. 407; p. 408 

 25 (1827) ; Theobald, Mon. Culicid., V, p. 158 (1910). 



Habitat. Papua, Milne Bay. 



Time of Capture. July 1912. 



Slegomyia seutellaris, Walker. 



Culex seutellaris, Walker. 



„ variegatus, Doleschall {nee Schrank). 

 ,, albopictus, Skuse. 



