CATALOGUE OF THE CULICIDAE IN THE HUNGARIAN NATIONAL MUSEUM. 
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Habitat: New Guinea (Biró, 1900). 
Observations : The cT very closly resembles the cf of Desvoidea, 
but the absence of fiat scutellar scales at once separates it. The mid 
ungues being equal is a character found only in this genus of Culicidæ. 
There are only three males in the series one of which I have made pre¬ 
parations of in balsam. 
4. Skusea funerea Theob. 
(Plate I.) 
Monogr. Culicid. III. p. 292. (1903). 
Variety : ornata nov. var. 
Head black with a white median line and a creamy patch on each 
side. Thorax bright rich reddish-brown ornamented as follows : an irregu¬ 
lar median golden scaled line and a curved golden scaled line on each 
side meeting in front ; pleuræ brown with grey spots. Abdomen black 
wdth four white rather irregular bands towards the middle of the seg¬ 
ments, i. e. with 3 bands, two black and one white. Legs brown unban¬ 
ded; femora pale below. 
$ . Head black, clothed with small flat black scales, a median line 
of creamy white and lateral areas of creamy white ones, a narrow border 
of golden narrow-curved scales around the eyes ; a few golden bristles 
project between the eyes ; palpi and proboscis brown : antennæ brown, 
basal joint pale bright testaceous. 
Thorax deep brown, clothed with small narrow-curved rich reddish 
brown scales, ornamented with a more or less distinct median line of 
narrow-curved golden ones and lateral curved lines in front which meet 
behind the head and a pale golden scaled area over the wings ; the 
median line forks round the bare space in front of the scutellum, three 
lines of black bristles which are most prominent behind and also 
numerous others over the roots of the wings ; prothoracic lobes with 
narrow-curved golden scales ; scutellum brown with golden narrow-curved 
scales and black border-bristles, five to the mid lobe ; metanotum brown ; 
pleuræ pale brown with white to grey puncta. 
Abdomen deep black and white ; basal segment all black ; second 
segment with three white spots placed medianally, one in the centre 
and two lateral, next four segments with curved white narrow bands, the 
two basal towards the basal part of the segments, the two apical to¬ 
wards the apical borders of the segments ; the seventh segment with 
two lateral white spots about the middle of the segment ; apical segment 
all black, the white bands spread out into prominent median lateral 
