Mr. Frank II. Taylor on Culicidae from Papua. 203 



Skusea funerea, Theobald. 



Mon. Culicid., Ill, p. 292 (1903); IV, 542 (1907); V, 

 p. 488 (1910); Bancroft, Ann. Queensland Mus., No. 8, 

 p. 55 (1908). 



Additional Locality. Papua, Mekeo District {Dr. Breinl.) 

 Observations. The abdomen of the specimens are in an 

 imperfect condition, but there can be little doubt that it is 

 the above species as it agrees in other details. 



Uranotaenia nigerrima, n. sp. * 



(Plate XVIII, fig. 10.) 



Head brown with white scales. Thorax pale brown. Abdomen 

 jet black. Legs dark brown scaled. 



$. Head brown with loosely applied white flat scales with 

 numerous dark brown upright forked scales; eyes deep black; 

 antennae deep brown, verticillate hairs blackish, pile brown; 

 proboscis black, hairy, apex with a creamy yellow tinge ; palpi black. 



Thorax pale yellowish brown (in two specimens it is brown) 

 densely clothed with brown narrow curved scales with a small 

 median area in front of the scutellum nude, a row of brown bristles 

 extending from the roots of the wings to the scutellum ; prothoracic 

 lobes brown clothed witli flat pale scales and brown bristles; 

 scutellum pale brown clothed with flat brown scales; metanotum 

 brown ; pleurae yellowish with a central brown patch. 



Abdomen pitchy black, unhanded, truncate; venter black. 



Legs brownish black; coxae and trochanters yellowish; femora 

 pale beneath, fore femora swollen ; ungues equal and simple. 



Wings with the veins covered with dusky brown scales; costa 

 black ; fringe dusky ; first submarginal cell three-fifths the length 

 of the second posterior cell; stem of the former slightly more than 

 twice the length of its cell, stem of second fork-cell about one and a 

 half times the length of the cell; posterior cross-vein longer than 

 the mid cross-vein and scarcely its own length distant from it. 

 Halteres black. 



Length 3 mm. 



(J. Head similar to $; antennae pale brown, nodes blackish, 

 plumes browTi ; palpi and proboscis as in $, last two segments of 

 the former very long ; clypeus brown. 



Thorax yellowish brown, clothing as in $; scutellum similar to 

 $ mid lobe with four black bristles to mid lobe and three to lateral 

 lobes; metanotum chestnut brown. 



