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unhanded ; pale ventrally. Legs deep brown, apices of mid and hind 
femora with a silvery white spot. Wings with deep-brown scaled veins. 
2 • Head brown with narrow-curved golden brown scales over the 
greater part, some small flat creamy ones at the sides ; over the occiput 
numerous thin upright-forked scales; black bristles projecting forwards, 
especially two prominent ones between the eyes. Clypeus, proboscis, palpi 
brown; antennæ brown, the basal joint testaceous. 
Thorax bright reddish-brown with four small golden scaled spots, 
two close to the head and with numerous scattered small narrow-curved 
bronzy scales, bristles black ; scutellum densely clothed with flat silvery 
white scales and with black border-bristles ; metanotum brown ; pleuræ 
bright brown with three silvery white spots, composed of flat scales. 
Abdomen black, unbanded with golden border-bristles ; venter with 
broad basal creamy bands. 
Legs brown, the front pair uniform, the mid and the hind with 
the apices of the femora and tibiæ pure silvery white ; fore and mid 
ungues equal, uniserrated, hind equal and simple. 
Wings (Plate II) with the fork-cells nearly equal in size, the first 
submarginal slightly longer and narrower than the second posterior cell, 
its stem about two-thirds the length of the cell, about the same length as 
that of the second posterior cell, the stem of which is about two-tliirds 
the length of the cell ; bases of the cells nearly level, that of the first 
submarginal if any thing slightly nearer the apex of the wing ; posterior 
cross-vein about its own length distant from the mid. Halteres with dull 
stem and fuscous knob. 
Length : 4 to 4*5 mm. 
Habitat : New Guinea, Simbang, Huon Golf (Biró, 1898) and Fried¬ 
rich- Wilhelmshafen (Bíró, 1900). 
Observations : Described from two <j> ’s. It is a very distinct species 
easily told by the silvery white scaled scutellum and the two silvery 
white apical spots on the mid and hind femora and tibiæ. The cephalic 
scales in one specimen are much brighter golden color than in the type. 
Genus THEOBALDIA Nev.-Lem. 
Comp. Rendus, d. Seances de la Soc. d. Biol. 29. Nov. (1902) Neveu-Lemaire ; 
Monogr. Culicid. III. p. 148 (1901) Theobald. 
Annales Musei Nationalis Han g ari ci IH. 
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