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



Abdomen with brownish black scales, hairy at the sides ; venter 

 as in $. 



Legs similar to $; fore and mid ungues unequal, simple, hind 

 equal and simple. 



Wings with scales similar to 9 ; stem of first fork-cell about three 

 times 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 and 

 slightly more than its own length distant from the mid. 



Length 3 mm. 



Habitat. Papua, Milne Bay {Dr. Breinl) ; Lakekamu Gold 

 Field {Dr. Gihlin). 



Observations. This is a very distinct species and would 

 come next to Uranotaenia atra, Theobald, in his synoptic 

 table.* 



Hodgesia triangulatus, n. sp. 



Head clothed with fiat scales. Thorax black clothed with narrow 

 curved hair-like scales. Abdomen dark brown scaled. Legs 

 unhanded. 



$. Head densely covered with white fiat scales except on the 

 nape where they are brown and slightly larger, the white scales 

 in front form a distinct triangle ; eyes purplish black, fringe duskj'', 

 two dark brown bristles overhanging the eyes from the centre; 

 antennae bro^vn, fourteen-jointed, verticillate hairs black, pubescence 

 on intemodes grey- white, basal lobe black; palpi very short, black 

 scaled ; clypeus brown ; proboscis brown slender, expanded apically, 

 about the length of the abdomen with a few pale very short hairs 

 on the apex. 



Thorax shining black clothed with dark brown narrow curved 

 scales and two rows of dusky brown bristles ; scutellum dark brown 

 (denuded of scales), mid lobe with apparently six border bristles, 

 lateral lobes with three; pleurae black with the remains of white 

 small fairly broad flat scales ; metanotum black. 



Abdomen brown, clothed with dark brown scales, segments 

 seven to the end black scaled, segments six and seven with fairly 

 large apical lateral white spots, first segment with numerous brown 

 hairs in addition to the brown scales ; venter brown with pale brown 

 scales. 



Legs brown ; coxae pallid ; undersurfaces of femora densely 

 clothed with creamy white scales; ungues small, equal and simple. 



Wings about twice as long as the abdomen, with brown scales to 

 the veins; costa, subcostal and first longitudinal veins black 



* Theobald, Mon. Culicid., V, p. 500 (1910). 



