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A Monograph of Culicidae. 



Genus DANIELSIA. Theobald. 



The Entomologist, Vol. XXXVII., p. 78 (1904); Gen. Ins. Fam, Culicid., 



p. 21 (1905). 



Head covered with small flat scales, with truncated ends, 

 loosely and rather raggedly placed on the head, a few long 



narrow-curved ones behind and small up- 

 right forked ones with them. Scutellum 

 with small narrow-curved scales ; meso- 

 thorax with narrow-curved scales. Palpi 

 short in the ? , densely scaled ; in the $ as 

 long as the proboscis, the two last segments 

 short, the apical rather shorter than or equal 

 to the penultimate, hair-tufts scanty. Fork- 

 cells of wings rather short. 

 This genus comes near Macleaya, but can at 

 once be told by the narrow-curved scutellar scales 

 and from the allied Catageiomyia by the long $ 

 palpi. 



Five species of Danielsia are now known : — 



1. D. albotaeniata, Leicester, The Entomo., p. Ill (1904) 

 (Kuala Lumpur, Fed. Malay States). 



2. D. wellmanii, Theobald, The Entom., p. 103 (1905) (Bihe,. 

 Angola). 



3. D. nigrescens, n. sp. (Brazil). 



4. D. mediomaculata, n. sp. (Para, Brazil). 



5. D. tripunctata, n. sp. (Rio Grande, Brazil). 





Kig. 71. 



Male palp 

 and pro- 

 boscis of 



Danielsia. 



They tabulate as follows : — 



a. Proboscis banded albotaeniata. Theobald. 



aa. Proboscis unhanded. 

 £. Legs basally pale banded. 

 y. Thorax deep brown, with a broad creamy 

 area on each side, expanding in front and 



a short creamy median line wellmanii. Theobald. 



77. Thorax with bright creamy grey scales mediomaculata. n. sp. 



££. Legs with pale bands involving both sides 



of the joints tripunctata. n. sp. 



3&fi. Legs unhanded nigrescens. n. sp. 



