Mr. Frank H. Taylor on Culicidae from Pajma. 189 



Journ. Proc. Linn. Soc, London, III, p. 77 (1859); 

 Doleschall, Naturg. Tijds., V, Ned. Ind., XVII, p. 77 

 (1858); Skuse, Ind. Mus. Notes, III, p. 5, 20 (1895); 

 Theobald, Mon. Culicid., V, p. 155 (1910). 



Habitat, Papua, Lakekamu Gold Field {Dr. Giblin). 



Stegomyia ornata, n. sp. 



Head black, clothed with iridescent scales and black upright 

 forked ones. Thorax yellowish brown. Abdomen pale brown, 

 unhanded. Legs brown, black, sc£|,led. 



(J. Head black with flat black iridescent scales, azure blue in 

 some lights, and numerous black upright forked ones ; eyes black, 

 border bristles dark brown, two bristles projecting over the eyes 

 from the centre; antennae brown, with a pale apical ring to the 

 segments, except the second and last two segments, basal lobe 

 testaceous; clypeus brownish; palpi black scaled; proboscis black, 

 long and slender, unhanded. 



Thorax yellowish tinged with brown, clothed with brown narrow 

 curved hair-like scales with a few brown flat ones over the wing 

 roots; scutellum yellowish, paler than the thorax, clothed with 

 brown flat scales; metanotum dark brown; prothoracic lobes 

 yellowish, prominent, clothed with brown flat scales and a few 

 brown hairs; pleurae yellow with a brown patch above the coxae, 

 a few scattered white flat scales on the brown area. 



Abdomen yellowish brown clothed with dusky brown scales, 

 penultimate segment brown with its apex and last segment fairly 

 densely covered with pale hairs ; venter darker than dorsal surface 

 covered with blackish brown scales. 



Legs brownish, unhanded, clothed with black iridescent scales, 

 violet in some lights; fore ungues unequal, the larger moderately 

 stout with a strong tooth, mid and hind wanting. 



Wings with the veins clothed with dark scales, the lateral ones 

 rather broad; first fork-cell scarcely longer and slightly narrower 

 than the second, base of the latter nearer the base of the wing; 

 stem of first fork-cell about three-quarters the length of its cell ; 

 stem of the second about two-thirds the length of its cell; mid 

 cross-vein parallel to the posterior cross-vein, the latter longer 

 than and about one and a half times its own length distant from 

 the former. Halteres with the stalk and knob black. 



Length 4'5 mm. 



Habitat. Papua, Milne Bay. 



Observation. Described from a single specimen taken by 



