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



smallest, a few scattered pale golden bristles mostly on the lateral 

 edges. 



Legs black; femora pale scaled beneath, coxae and trochanters 

 ochraceous ; knee joint pale ; first and second tarsi of fore legs with 

 narrow white basal bands; first to third tarsi of mid legs with 

 white basal banding; tarsi of hind legs with broad white basal 

 banding; ungues of fore and mid legs equal each with a small 

 tooth; hind ungues equal and simple, straighter than those of fore 

 and mid legs. 



Wings with the veins covered with dark brown scales, lateral 

 ones linear, median small and flat; costa black; first fork-cell 

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

 latter nearer the base of the wing than that of the first fork-cell, 

 stem of the latter about three-quarters the length of its cell, that 

 of second fork-cell about half the length of its cell ; mid cross-vein 

 longer than the supernumerary, the posterior as long as the mid, 

 sloping forwards and about half its length distant from it; fringe 

 brown. Halteres, the stalk pale with the knob black scaled. 



Length 5 mm. 



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



The above mosquito differs from L. australiensis, Theob., 

 mainly in the leg banding, wing venation and the absence 

 of mottled scales on the wing. Until further material 

 comes to hand it is proposed to retain it as a variety of 

 L. australiensis, Theobald. 



Leucotnyia ? albitarsis, n. sp. 



Head brown. Thorax brown with mostly brown scales. Ab- 

 domen dark brown scaled with basal banding and lateral white 

 spots. Legs dusky brown with basal white banding. 



5. Head brown, clothed with white narrow curved scales in the 

 centre and brown narrow curved and flat white ones on the sides, 

 with numerous black upright forked ones at the sides and on the 

 nape, and dark brown frontal chaetae; antennae brown with dark 

 brown verticillate hairs and whitish pubescence to the internodes, 

 basal lobe and basal half of second segment yellowish brown ; palpi 

 pale clothed with dark brown scales ; clypeus dark brown ; proboscis 

 black scaled. 



Thorax brown clothed with narrow curved brown hair-like scales 

 and a median line of pure white ones extending from the anterior 

 margin to the level of the roots of the wings, a lateral border of 

 brown bristles on each side of mesothorax, densest above the roots 

 of the wings; scutellum brown clothed with white narrow curved 



