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spots ; venter with broad basal white bands, apical borders of the seg¬ 
ments yellowish-brown. Legs deep brown, tibiae and metatarsi bristly, 
coxæ and bases and venter of the femora pallid ; ungues of fore and mid 
legs equal and simple, of hind equal and simple. 
Wings typically scaled ; the first submarginal cell considerably lon¬ 
ger and a little narrower than the second posterior cell, its stem about 
half the length of the cell, its base nearer the base of the wing, stem of 
the second posterior as long as the cell and longer than the stem of 
the first submarginal ; posterior cross-vein not quite its own length distant 
from the mid ; pseudo-vein between the fifth and sixth very distinct. 
Length: 3*8 to 4*5 mm. 
Habitat: New Guinea, Sattelberg, Huon Golf (Bieó) 1899; Fried- 
rich- Wilhelmshafen (Bíró) 1900. 
Observations : Described from a series of eight ç ’s. This variety 
differs from the type in having an ornamented thorax and in the slightly 
different positions of the abdominal bands. I can see no reasons however 
to treat it as a distinct species as structurally it is the same as the type 
from Australia. 
The specimens show variation in regards to the cephalic ornamen¬ 
tation, some being as described in the type-variety, others as in the 
typical Australian form. 
Genus LEPIDOTOMYIA nov. gen. 
(Plate II.) 
Head clothed with narrow-curved scales except at the sides where 
they are small and flat; metanotum with very small narrow-curved 
scales ; scutellum densely clothed with flat scales. Palpi short in j . 
Wings much as in Stegomyia , the fork-cells being rather short and their 
branches rather densely scaled ; scales of Stegomyia type. 
This genus is intermediate between Culex and Stegomyia, differing 
from the former by having flat scutellar scales and from the latter by 
having narrow-curved head scales over most of the head as in Culex. 
A single species only occurs in the genus. 
1. Lepidotomyia alboscutellata n. sp. 
Head brown with golden and brown scales ; proboscis and palpi 
deep brown. Thorax bright brown with small scattered bronzy scales 
and with four creamy scaled round spots ; scutellum densely silvery- 
white scaled, pleuræ pale brown with white spots. Abdomen deep brown 
