CATALOGUE OF THE CULICIDAE IN THE HUNGARIAN NATIONAL MUSEUM. 
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penultimate a little longer than the apical one, apex bristly (the exact 
number of joints cannot be made out owing to the scales). Clypeus small, 
rather long and bright testaceous. Proboscis brown, yellowish-brown at the 
base, fairly long and swollen apically. Antennæ (Fig. 9 B et C) with the 
basal joint brown with a hoary sheen, testaceous in the cuplike depres¬ 
sion and with a very pronounced blunt prominence on the inner side (B), 
the prominence having fine hairs on one portion, the four following joints 
normal, the sixth to ninth with varied processes as shown in the figure, 
the two long apical joints very pubescent. Thorax deep shiny brown with 
scattered bronzy brown narrow-curved scales, at the base of the wings 
the integument is pallid; prothoracic lobes with dull grey flat scales; 
scutellum testaceous with small narrow-curved black scales and four black 
bristles to the mid lobe ; pleuræ ochreous brown. 
Abdomen violet black with bronzy reflections in certain lights, basal 
segment bright testaceous with two spots of black scales ; venter brown 
apically, yellowish-brown to ochreous basally ; hairs brown. 
Legs uniformly brown with bronzy reflections, coxæ pale ochreous, 
and also venter of femora ; ungues of the fore legs unequal, the larger 
curved and thick and uniserrated, the smaller simple ; the mid unequal, 
the larger much curved and simple, the smaller uniserrated ; hind very 
small equal, simple and curved. (Fig. 9 D.) 
Wings with the fork-cells short, the first submarginal longer and 
narrower than the second posterior cell, its base nearer the base of the 
wing than that of the second posterior cell, its stem more than two- 
thirds the length of the cell ; stem of the second posterior a little longer 
than the cell ; supernumerary cross-vein shorter than the mid, the mid 
longer than the posterior cross-vein, the latter about three times its own 
length distant from the mid ; scales on the branches of the fork-cells 
Taeniorhynchus -like but small ; on the stems and on the fifth and sixth 
median-vein scales are alone present. Halteres with pale stem; and 
slightly fuscous knob. 
Length: 4*5 mm. 
Habitat: Singapore (Biró, 1902). 
Observations : Described from a single perfect male. In spite of the 
shorter palpi and the strange prominence on the basal antennal joint 
I place this species in this genus as the peculiar antennal organs are so 
very similar as well as all the squamose characters. I have been unable 
to draw the antennal organs in detail as I could not break up the type. 
It can easily be distinguished from L. fraudatrix by the smaller size' of 
the antennal organs and their different structure. 
Annales Musei Nationalis Hungarici. III. 
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