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



^ specimen. It is the first record of its presence in British 

 New Guinea. 



For additional references and synonomy see Theobald, I. c. 



Pseudotaeniorhynchus conopas, Frauenf . 

 var. giblini, var. nov. 



Head yellow. Thorax with black spots and lateral patches on 

 the posterior half with golden yellow narrow curved scales. Abdo- 

 men brownish. I^egs banded. 



$. Head brown ; densely clothed with golden yellow narrow curved 

 and upright forked scales with a narrow line of flat ones on the sides 

 bordering the eyes ; eyes black with red reflections, border bristles 

 yellow, two overhanging the eyes from the centre; antennae light 

 brown densely clothed with whitish pubescence, verticillate hairs 

 brown, basal lobes and second segment orange yellow, the former 

 slightly the darker ; palpi bright orange yellow with brown hairs ; 

 proboscis orange yellow with the tip black ; clypeus yellowish brown. 



Thorax fuscous densely covered with narrow curved hair-like 

 golden yellow scales with six rows of golden yellow bristles, the 

 lateral rows especially dense over the roots of the wings, on the 

 posterior half of thorax extending towards the scutellum is a 

 U -shaped blackish brown area witl\ the open end facing the scutel- 

 lum, the latter lemon yellow (in one specimen it is orange yellow) 

 with narrow curved golden scales to the mid lobe, lateral lobes black, 

 nude, mid lobe with five yellow posterior border bristles, the lateral 

 lobes with a double row, four in front and three behind; pleurae 

 mottled with light and dark browTi with a few pale creamy scales 

 and golden bristles (most of the scales seem to have been rubbed off) ; 

 metanotum bright yellow. 



Abdomen brown densely covered with rich orange yellow scales, 

 lateral bristles prominent, posterior border bristles golden; the 

 first segment greyish densely clothed with golden yellow bristles 

 and a patch of orange yellow scales in the centre; venter brown 

 with orange yellow scales and densely covered with yellowish hairs. 



Legs golden yellow scaled; coxae and trochanters pale yellow; 

 femora and tibiae orange yellow the latter in the fore and mid legs 

 with pale violet brown spots, in the hind legs with violet brown 

 bands ; tarsi golden yellow with apical violet brown bands, the fifth 

 tarsals of fore and mid legs appear to be only spotted ; ungues equal, 

 simple, and sickle-shaped. 



Wings with the veins covered with golden yellow thick elongated 

 scales mostly ending diagonally and convexly ; first fork-cell about 

 same length and narrower than the second, base of the latter much 



