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its own length distant from the mid, the latter and the super¬ 
numerary in a straight line ; scales brown, rather dense' on the 
branches of the fork-cells. Halteres with testaceous stems and 
fuscous knobs. 
Length. —5"5 mm. 
Habitat. —Purneah, 1ST. Bengal (0. Paiva). 
Time of capture. —6. viii. 07 (1 9 )• 
Observations .—Described from a single perfect 9 • It clearly 
comes in a new genus, related to Lutz’s Oarrollia. The very 
marked thoracic, abdominal and leg ornamentation will at once 
separate it from any species coming in the Stegomyia group. 
The ventral abdominal tufts are very marked. 
Type in the Indian Museum, Calcutta. 
Genus PSEUDOSKUSEA. Theobald (1907). 
Mono. CulicicL IV., 192 (1907). 
Two species now occur in this genus and they can be told as 
follows :— 
Abdomen unbanded with lateral basal white spots. 
1. Thorax deep brown with two pale yellow 
patches, extending more or less across 
mesonotum; ungues equal and uniserrate multiplex. Theobald. 
2. Thorax deep brown, a pale band in front near 
the head; ungues equal and simple ......... similis. jl, sp. 
Both species come from Queensland and one ( multiplex) also 
from blew Guinea. 
Pseudoskusea multiplex. Theobald (1903). 
Skusea multiplex. Theobald (1903). 
Mono. Gulicid. III., 293 (1903); IV., 192 (1907), Theobald; Ann. Queens¬ 
land Museum, No. 8, 23 (1908), Bancroft. 
Queensland; Hew Guinea. 
Notes. —Dr. Bancroft writes :—“ This insect is never plentiful 
but has a wide range in South Queensland; it is a biting 
mosquito and at first sight mistaken for Culex annulirostris , but 
on closer inspection the yellowish band on the thorax is noticed 
and the unbanded proboscis ; finder the miscroscope it is seen 
not to be a Culex . I secured d 7; from breeding out a mixed lot of 
