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FRED. Y. THEOBALD 
Genus MELANOCONION Theob. 
Monogr. Culicid. III. 238. (1903). 
1. Melanoconion ornatus n. sp. 
(Plates I and IV.) 
Head black, with some median yellowish scales ; palpi and proboscis 
black. Thorax deep rich brown, ornamented with two parallel pale scaled 
lines behind, pale golden scales at the sides and pale scales in front and 
on the scutellum. Abdomen deep brown with pale basal lateral spots ; 
venter densely creamy scaled. Legs bronzy brown, nnbanded. 
2 . Head deep brown with small dusky curved scales, some dull 
yellowish ones in the middle, dusky grey flat ones at the sides, a few 
dusky and dull ochreous upright forked ones ; palpi and proboscis black : 
antennæ deep brown ; some long black bristles on the palpi and short 
ones on the proboscis. 
Thorax deep chestnut-brown with very small narrow-curved scales, 
two pale scaled lines on the posterior half running down to the scutellum, 
golden scales at the sides in front of the wings and extending to the 
head and some golden scales in front ; scutellum brown with pale creamy 
narrow-curved scales ; metanotum deep brown ; pleuræ brown with 
yellowish tinge. 
Abdomen deep brown with basal creamy lateral spots which on 
some of the segments nearly meet to form indistinct basal bands ; bor¬ 
der-bristles pale golden in some lights, brown in others ; venter covered 
with creamy scales. Legs thin, deep brown, the coxæ and bases and venter 
of femora deep ochreous ; ungues small, equal and simple. Wings (Plate I) 
with brown scales, fork-cells short, the first submarginal with dense thick 
scales, also the first longitudinal and to some extent the third long-vein; 
first submarginal cell longer and narrower than the second posterior cell, 
its stem nearly two-thirds the length of the cell, its base nearly level 
with that of the second posterior cell ; stem of the second posterior as 
long as the cell; posterior cross-vein a little longer than the mid, nearly 
twice its own length away; halteres with pale stem and fuscous knob. 
Length: 3*5 mm. 
Habitat: Friedrich- Wilhelmshafen, New Guinea (Biró, 1900). 
Time of capture : December. 
Observations : Described from a single j . It can at once betold 
from all other Melanoconions by the ornamentation of the thorax. 
