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lobe (Fig. 15. c) ; metanotum nude, black; pleuræ brown with flat silvery 
white scales. Abdomen black, unbanded ; venter silvery white ; apex bristly. 
Legs uniformly brown, with ochreous sheen 
in certain lights ; ungues small, equal and 
simple. Wings with typical brown Culex- scales 
(Plate IY) ; the first submarginal cell longer 
and very slightly narrower than the second 
posterior cell, its base a little nearer the 
base of the wing, its stem about one-third 
the length of the cell, stem of the second 
posterior about one half the length of the 
cell ; posterior cross-vein rather more than 
twice its own length distant from the mid ; 
the lateral vein-scales are rather long, espe¬ 
cially on the basal part of the second and 
fourth veins. Halteres with testaceous stem 
and fuscous knob with some pallid scales. 
Length: 3*5 to 4 mm. 
Habitat: Paumomu River, New Guinea (Loria, IX—XII. 1892). 
Observations: Described from five j ’s. It is easily identified by 
the thoracic scales and the black abdomen with silvery venter. It is sub¬ 
ject to considerable variation in size and in apparently the relative 
length of the palpi and proboscis, also in the relative distance of the 
posterior cross-vein and mid cross-vein. 
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Fig. 15. Polylepidomyia ar- 
genteiventris n. sp. — a ce¬ 
phalic, b scutellar ornamen¬ 
tation ; c border-bristles of 
scutellum. 
Genus CORETHRA Meig. 
Illiger’ s Magaz. II. 260 (1803) Meigen. 
1. Corethra plumicornis Fabr. 
Ent. Syst. IY. 246. 58 (1794) Fabricius; Monogr. Culicid. II. p. 299 (1901) Theobald ; 
Állattan. Közi. III. 74 (1904) Kertész. 
Specimens from numerous places in Hungary. (Yide : Kertész, p. 75 ). 
Also recorded from many other parts of Europe. 
