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A NEW CULICID GENUS 
DV 
F. V. THEOBALD. M.A. 
(Received for publication 6 November, 1908; 
Genus Newsteadina, nov. gen. 
Near Ortkopodomyia Theobald, but differs in the longer male 
palpi, and the presence of very long scales on the male antennae, and 
also in the wings having Mansonia-\\kc scales. 
Head clothed with dense, narrow-curved scales, somewhat 
broadened, numerous upright forked scales broadly expanded 
apically and with flat lateral scales. 
Antennae plumose in the (S, the basal segments with very long, 
narrow, twisted, or wavy scales; pilose in the 9 . with narrow 
outstanding flat scales on the two basal segments. Palpi of the S 
of four segments ( ?), as long as the proboscis, apical segment very 
small; of the 9 longer than half the proboscis. 
Thorax with rather long, narrow-curved scales; scutellura with 
rather broad, curved scales; metanotum nude. 
Wings clothed along the veins with large, asymmetrical, flat scales 
t^iansonia type), and thin, straight, lateral ones beneath them. 
Scaled black and white, giving the wings a markedly ornamenta 
appearance. , , , 
Types. aborkolHs. D’Emerrez de Charmoy. Ann. rop. ^ . 
and Parasif Vol. II, No. 3. P- 257 . July. iQOO. In the museum of the 
School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool University. 
Culex.fowleri (loc. cit.) The insect described under this name 
is, judging from the single male, a Grabhamia. 
undoubtedly only Culex micro 
Culex rolandi (loc. cit.) is 
(innulatus, Theo. 
*In the description of this insect in the jourr* ** 
«cnrTcd:-‘ThLs remarkable insect bears some 
^hoceratomyia, though it is quite distinct, and a new „ 
». vhe fouoM-ing note 
