Genus Trichoprotwmyia. 479 



basal antennal segment this species is placed in this genus as the 

 peculiar antennal organs are so very similar as well as all the 

 squamose characters. It can easily be distinguished from L. 

 fraudatrix by the smaller size of the antennal organs and their 

 different structure. 



The type is in the National Museum, Budapest. 



Genus TRICHOPRONOMYIA. Theobald. 

 Ann. Mus. Nat. Hung., p. 98 (1905). 



Head clothed with narrow-curved, upright forked and flat 

 lateral scales. Proboscis with dense tuft of hairs towards the 

 middle and shorter hairs on apical portion. Antennae plumose. 

 Thorax with narrow-curved scales on mesothorax and with a 

 patch of outstanding scales on each side before the wings 

 somewhat like the cephalic forked scales ; prothoracic scales flat ; 

 scutellar scales narrow-curved. Wings with Taeniorhynehus-likv 

 scales on the branches of the fork-cells, some small Mansonia-like 

 ones on the base of the first long vein and on the sub-costal vein. 



This genus is founded on the hairy proboscis ; characteristic 

 wing scales separating it from Culex and also the peculiar 

 arrangement of scales in front of the wings on the mesothorax. 

 The palpi are damaged. 



Two species are known. 



Trichopronomyia annulata. Theobald (1905). 

 Ann. Mus. Nat. Hung. III., p. 98 (1905). 



Head brown with pale yellowish scales, a dusky patch on 

 each side. Proboscis brown with a creamy yellow band on the 

 apical half, long hairs on each side just below the band and 

 shorter ones above it. Thorax brown with pale golden and 

 creamy white scales, the latter forming more or less a patch on 

 each side. Abdomen deep brown, with basal creamy yellow 

 bands and a few scattered creamy scales on the apex. Legs 

 brown with narrow pale yellow basal and apical bands. Wings 

 with Taeniorhyncliiis-like scales. 



<£. Head brown with narrow-curved pale creamy yellow 

 scales and flat pale creamy ones at the sides, dense yellow 

 upright forked ones centrally, black ones laterally, forming two 

 dark areas. Eyes coppery red. Proboscis deep brown with a 



