Genus Skusea. 547 



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

 nearly three times its own length distant from the mid cross-vein. 



Length. — 4 mm. 



Habitat. — Panmomu River, New Guinea (Loria), (ix., xii., 

 1892). 



Observations. — Described from a single ? . It resembles 



Fig. 251. 

 Wing of Skusea culiciformis. 9 . Theobald. 



generally Gulex fatigans> but is stouter in build and, as can be 

 seen by the scale structure, belongs to quite a different genus. 



It can be told from S. funerea (Theob.), by the simple 

 abdominal banding and different venation and from Skusea 

 multiplex (Theob.), by having basal abdominal bands and simple 

 ungues. 



The type is in the National Museum of Hungary, Budapest. 



Skusea diurna. Theobald (1903). 



The Entomologist, Vol. XXXVI., p. 259 (1903). 



Head black, with a narrow pale median line and paler at the 

 sides ; proboscis brown ; thorax richly brown scaled ; pleurae 

 black with silvery puncta ; abdomen black, unhanded, with basal 

 lateral silvery spots. Legs dark brown, unhanded, paler at the 

 base and beneath the femora ; femora rather swollen. 



9 . Head covered with flat black scales, a narrow indistinct 

 line of dull creamy ones and a few pale dull blue ones at the 

 sides ; a few thick black bristles projecting over the golden eyes ; 

 clypeus black, truncated with a slight median depression, in 

 certain lights with grey sheen ; palpi and proboscis brown, the 

 former very short ; antennae brown, base of the second segment 

 bright testaceous. 



Thorax black, covered with rather long, rich brown narrow- 

 curved scales, a few paler scales in front over the head ; scutellum 

 deep brown with narrow-curved brown scales and five median 

 border-bristles ; pleurae brown with silvery white puncta. 



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