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



brown, verticillate hairs dark brown, internodes densely covered 

 with pale pubescence, second segment clothed with short dark 

 brown hairs, basal lobes yellowisli brown ; clypeus pale brown ; 

 palpi dark browTi scaled about one-quarter the length of the pro- 

 boscis, the latter dark brown, the apex covered with short brown 

 hairs. 



Thorax dark brown densely covered with narro-\\' curved brown 

 hair-like scales, posterior portion of mesothorax yellowish brown ; 

 scutellum yellowish browTi covered with very narrow hair-like scales, 

 six brown border bristles to the mid lobe and four to the lateral 

 lobes ; pleurae pale yellowish brown, denuded, Mith a few scattered 

 broAvn hairs ; metanotum light brown. 



Abdomen pale creamy densely clothed with brown scales; first 

 segment pale brown with numerous fairly long brown liairs, posterior 

 border bristles brown, lateral border bristles brown; venter pale 

 bro\Mi scaled with numerous brown hairs. 



Legs dark browTi ; coxae and trochanters pale yellowish brown ; 

 femora with the basal half greyish white beneath ; tarsi of fore and 

 mid legs pale brown ; hind tarsi dark brown ; ungues small, equal 

 and simple. 



Wings with the veins covered with very small linear lateral and 

 median flat scales; first fork-cell longer and narrower than the 

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

 former ; stem of the first fork-cell slightly more than half the length 

 of its cell ; stem of the second fork-cell nearly the length of the cell ; 

 mid cross- vein longer than the posterior cross- vein, the latter about 

 three times its own length distant from the former; fringe dark. 

 Halteres with creamy stems and dusky knobs. 



Length 4' 5 mm. 



Habitat. Papua, Lakekamu Gold Field. 



Observations. Described from one $ specimen taken by 

 Dr. Giblin. It is closely related to M. indecorabilis, Theob., 

 but can easily be separated from it by its pale pleurae and 

 pale scaled head, etc. 



Finlaya poicilia, Theobald. 



Mon. Culicid., Ill, p. 283 (1903); IV, p. 520 (1907); 

 Giles, Journ. Trop. Med., VII, p. 366 (1904); Theobald, 

 Gen. Ins. Culicid., p. 33 (1905); Banks, Philip. Journ. Sci., 

 I, p. 9, 990 (1906); Ludlow, Mosq. Phihp. 9 (1908). 



Additional Localities. Papua, Samarai Island, Mekeo 

 District, {Dr. Breinl) ; Lakekamu Gold Field {Dr. Giblin). 



