374 A Monograph of Cuticidae. 



Lbucomyia GELIDA. Theobald (1901). 

 var, cuneata. Theobald. 



Mono. Culicid. II., p. 22 (1901). 

 Additional locality. — Philippine Islands (Miss Ludlow). 



LEUCOMYIA GELIDUS. Theobald, 

 variety bipunctata. n. v. 



Resembles the type in all respects, but the frosty scaled 

 anterior region of the thorax has two prominent brown spots on 

 the middle of the anterior region. Abdomen has the basal pale 

 bands extending in the middle nearly across some of the 

 segments. 



$ . Head brown, clothed in the middle with snow-white 

 small narrow-curved scales and similar coloured upright forked 

 scales, brown scales at the sides. Palpi brown, longer than the 

 proboscis, with four yellow bands, the second from the base the 

 broadest and corresponding with the pale band on the proboscis ; 

 apical segment acuminate, last two segments with brown hair- 

 tufts, but not very dense, of about equal length. 



Thorax brown, the anterior two-thirds clothed with small, 

 dense, narrow-curved, snowy-white scales, which end in an 

 irregular wavy line ; on this area are two distinct round brown 

 spots on the anterior portion ; posterior third with brown scales ; 

 dense black ohaetae over the roots of the wings; scutellum pale 

 brown with brown narrow-curved scales and seven brown posterior 

 border-bristles ; metanotum pale brown ; pleurae pale with two 

 or three dusky spots. Abdomen deep brown with basal white 

 bands, which spread out in tin 4 middle to form long median 

 projections and long white lateral lines j posterior border-bristles 

 pale golden. 



Legs as in the 9 i f° re wad mid ungues unequal, uniserrate, 

 the tooth of the smaller basal ; hind ungues equal and simple. 



Wings with the first sub-marginal cell longer and much 

 narrower than the second posterior cell, its base nearer the base 

 of the wing, its stem about half the length of the cell ; stem of 

 the second posterior about three-fourths the Length of the cell; 

 posterior cross-vein more than twice 4 its own length distant from 

 the mid cross-vein. 



