542 A Monograph of Gnlicidae. 



Acdes. It is an extremely delicate species that evidently shrinks 

 on drying to some considerable extent. 



The $ genitalia are very marked, more so than in Aedes f uncus, 

 but the peculiar forked nature of the clasper is evident in both. 



Genus SKUSEA. Theobald. 

 Mono. Culicid. III., p. 291 (1903). 



The male of this genus has short palpi, composed of three 

 segments, the apical one small and nipple-like. The second 

 segment of the antennae slightly swollen, plumose. Genitalia 

 with short, thick, blunt claspers ; basal lobes broad and short, a 

 large median semi-circular process between them at the base 

 and two sword-like harpes, curved at the base. 



Thus this genus is definitely settled to be Acdinc, as originally 

 thought, and not near Stegomyia, as placed in ' Genera 

 Insectorum.' 



The species tabulate as follows : — 



Abdomen with basal black median white and 



apical brown bands ; ungues simple funcrca. Theobald. 



Abdomen with median white fascia only ; 



ungues of fore and mid legs uniserratc mediofasciata. n. sp. 



Abdomen with basal white bands culiciformis. Theobald. 



Abdomen with small nearly basal lateral 



white spots diunia. Theobald. 



Skusea funerea. Theobald (1903). 

 Mono. Culicid. III., p. 292, 1903. 



Var. ornata. Theobald (1905). 



Ann. Mm. Nat. Hung. III., p. 79 (1905). 



Head black with a white median line, and a creamy patch on 

 each side. Thorax bright rich reddish-brown ornamented as 

 follows :— an irregular median golden scaled line, and a curved 

 golden scaled line on each side meeting in front ; pleurae brown 

 with grey spots. Abdomen black with four white rather irregular 

 bands towards the middle of the segments, i.e., with, three bands, 

 two black and one white. Legs brown unhanded; femora pale 

 below. 



9- Head black, clothed wit li small flat black scale-. 



