CATALOGUE OF THE CULICIDAE IN THE HUNGARIAN NATIONAL MUSEUM. 
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with small narrow-curved dark scales bas ally, pale creamy yellow api- 
cally ; border-bristles black and long ; metanotum brown ; pleurae with 
patches of small flat white scales. 
Abdomen hairy, deep brown, with narrow creamy-yellow basal bands ; 
the first segment testaceous with a median tuft of flat dark scales and 
yellowish-brown hairs ; apical segment 
with scattered yellow scales all over it ; 
genitalia brown, hairy (not scaly) claspers 
simple, brown. 
Legs brown with scattered pale sca¬ 
les ; metatarsi and tarsi with narrow pale 
bands involving both sides of the joints. 
Wings (Plate II) with the fork-cells 
short, the first submarginal longer and 
narrower than the second posterior, its 
base nearer the apex of the wing, its stem 
about two-thirds the length of the cell ; 
stem of the second posterior not quite as 
long as the cell ; posterior cross-vein about 
its own length distant from the mid cross¬ 
vein; third vein continued as a distinct 
pseudo-vein to the base of the wing, another pseudo-vein between the 
fifth and sixth; scales (Plate III) on the branches of the fork-cells and 
the apex of the first long-vein Tcteniorhynchus- like, others smaller, except 
on the subcostal and basal half of the first long-vein where some are 
similar in form to Mansonia -scales but smaller. Halteres with pale stem 
and black knob. 
Length : 5*5 mm. 
Habitat: Friedrich-Wilhelmshafen, New Guinea (Biró, 1900). 
Observations: Described from a single cT. It is a very marbed 
species told at once by the hairy proboscis. It cannot be placed in any 
known genus, so a new one has been formed for it. 
Fig. 10. Trichopronomyia annu- 
lata n. sp. cf. — a apex of pro¬ 
boscis ; b scales in front of wing. 
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