CATALOGUE OF THE CULICIDAE IN THE HUNGARIAN NATIONAL MUSEUM. HI 
ked scales. Proboscis deep brown ; palpi very short, brown ; antennae 
slightly plumose, brown. 
Thorax deep brown with rather large narrow-curved bronzy scales 
in the middle, a few golden ones at the sides and in front, a few dark 
bristles over the roots of the wings ; prothoracic lobes with small golden 
narrow-curved scales ; scutellum (Fig. 13b.) paler, the mid lobe with small 
flat scales showing brown, violet and ochreous reflections, the lateral lobes 
with dull creamy narrow-curved scales ; pleurae pale brown with patches 
of flat silvery scales ; metanotum brown. Abdomen narrow and long, 
slightly expanding apically, deep 
black, with basal lateral white spots. 
Legs brown with bronzy reflections ; 
coxae pale and the venter of the fe¬ 
mora pale brown ; fore ungues une¬ 
qual, the larger with a small tooth 
towards the apex, the smaller simple ; 
mid ungues unequal, both simple ; 
hind small, equal and simple (Fig. 
13. c, d, e). Wings with the fork- 
cells short the first submarginal nar¬ 
rower but no longer than the se¬ 
cond posterior cell, its stem the same 
length as the cell, its base level with 
that of the second posterior cell ; 
stem of the second posterior the same 
length as the cell ; posterior cross¬ 
vein longer than the mid and about 
its own length distant from it, the 
mid much shorter than the super¬ 
numerary thus bringing the third long vein close to the fourth. Halteres 
with testaceous stem and fuscous knob. 
Length : 4 mm. 
Habitat: Muina, New Guinea (Biró, 1900). 
Time of capture: 3i st December. 
Observations. Described from a perfect cT, partly dissected. It 
cannot be placed in any known Aedine genus, so a new genus has been 
founded for it. The abdomen is very long and thin, but whether this cha¬ 
racter will occur also in the ç remains to be seen. 
CL 
Fig. 13. Leptosomatomyia lateralis n. 
sp. cf. — ci cephalic ; b scutellar or¬ 
namentation ; c, d and e fore, mid and 
hind ungues of cT* 
