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FEED. Y. THEOBALD 
Length : 4 mm. 
Habitat: Paumomu River, New Guinea (Lokia, IX. XII. 1892). 
Observations : Described from a single $ . It resembles generally 
Culex fatigans , but is stouter in build and as can be seen by the scale 
structure belongs to quite a different genus. 
Two allied species are recorded in the following pages. 
It can be told from S. funerea (Theob.), by the simple abdominal ban¬ 
ding and different venation and from Skusea multiplex Theob. by having 
basal abdominal bands and simple ungues. A fourth species occurs in 
Africa. 
2. Skusea multiplex Theob. 
Monogr. Culicid. III. p. 293. (1903). 
A large series from New Guinea, from Friedrich- Wilhelmshafen, 
Stephansort, Astrolabe Bay, and Muina (Bikó) 1896 and 1900, and Ins. 
Graget (Bieó) 1901. 
Some of the specimens do not show the median pale head spot, 
others show it as prominently as in the type from Queensland. The basal 
joint of the antennæ in some is dark, in others as in the type, testaceous. 
The thorax shows no trace of the two pale lines, which almost form one 
line across it, seen in the Australian specimens. The whole thorax is 
unadorned, of an uniform dark brown, colored with uniformly scattered 
reddish-brown scales, which are bronzy under the two-third power. 
I cannot see any reason for separating these New Guinea speci¬ 
mens as a distinct species as there are only color differences. The male 
is described here for the first time. 
cf. Head all black-scaled with the lateral pale areas only. Thorax 
and abdomen as in the j . 
Palpi rather longer than the proboscis, very thin, black, no hair tufts, 
resembling those of Desvoidea. Apical segment of palpi slightly shorter 
than the penultimate segment. Wings long, fork-cells short, first sub¬ 
marginal cell longer and narrower than the second posterior cell, its 
base slightly nearer the apex of the wing than that of the second po¬ 
sterior, its stem as long as the cell ; stem of the second posterior longer 
than the cell, supernumerary and mid cross-veins almost in one straight 
line, the posterior about its own length distant from the mid. 
Legs as in the <j> ; fore ungues unequal the larger nearly twice as 
long as the smaller, both uniserrated, the serration of the smaller close 
to the base ; mid ungues equal and uniserrated ; hind equal and simple. 
Length : 4 to 4*5 mm. 
