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stem of the second posterior as long as the cell ; posterior cross- 

 vein sloping backwards, about twice its own length distant from 

 the mid, the mid and supernumerary nearly in a straight line. 

 Haiteres with pale brown stem and fuscous knob. 



Length. — 4 mm. 



Habitat. — Friedrich - Wilhelmshafen, New Guinea (Biro r 

 1900). 



Time of capture. — December 27th. 



Observations. — Easily told by the white scaled head and 

 thoracic ornamentation on the integument. 



Type in the National Museum of Hungary, Budapest. 



Melanoconion melanurus. Coquillett (1902). 

 Culex melanurus. Coquillett. 



Journ. N. Y. Ent. Soc. X., p. 193(1902), Coquillett; Journ. N. Y. Ent. 

 Soc. X., p. 198, pi. XVII., fig. 1 (1902), Dyar; Mosq. N. York State, 

 Bull. 79, Ent. 22, N. Y. St. Mus., p. 337 (1904), Felt. 



Head grey in front, dark brown behind ; male palpi slightly 

 longer than the brown proboscis. Thorax rich umber-brown. 

 Abdomen deep brown unhanded, no traces of lateral pale spots ; 

 hairy. Legs brown unhanded. 



$ . Head deep brown, clothed with scanty very narrow- 

 curved pale greyish scales in front and on occiput, dusky ones 

 behind with numerous black upright forked scales, most numerous 

 at the back of the head, forming the dark area mentioned above ; 

 small lateral flat scales, white to creamy ; palpi deep brown, 

 apical segment acuminate, about two-thirds the length of the 

 penultimate and thinner, both with long brown hairs and two or 

 three long bristle-like hairs on apex of the antepenultimate. 

 Proboscis deep brown; antennae deep brown, with grey inter- 

 nodes and deep brown plume-hairs with grey apices. 



Thorax deep rich reddish-brown, with scanty, very small 

 curved, almost hair-like golden scales and numerous black bristles, 

 which show golden reflections ; scutellum deep brown, with black 

 border-bristles and small very narrow-curved dull golden scales ; 

 metanotum brown; pleurae deep brown, with a few dull grey 

 patches of scales. 



Abdomen deep brown, unbanded, fifth, sixth and seventh 

 segments much swollen ; the whole abdomen densely hairy, hairs 

 brown. 



Legs deep brown, unbanded, base and under surface of 



