Genus PseudoskuMa. 
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larvae obtained from a cask placed in a small scrub on Deception 
Bay.” 
Type in the British Museum. 
PSEUDOSKUSEA SIMILIS. nOV. Sp. 
Head black with a pale median line and a pale lateral spot 
and paler around the eyes ; palpi and proboscis black. Thorax 
deep brown, a pale band in front near the head ; pleurae brown 
spotted with white. Abdomen black with basal white lateral 
spots which spread out upwards medianally and which look like 
median lateral spots from above. Legs black. Ungues equal 
and simple. 
5 . Head clothed with flat black scales, paler ones in the 
middle in some lights forming a median line, a patch of flat 
creamy ones on each side and paler hues around the eyes in 
certain lights ; chaetae black ; palpi short, rather thick, black ; 
proboscis black ; clypeus black. 
Thorax black, clothed with small narrow-curved, almost hair¬ 
like scales of a dull brown hue, except in front, where they form 
a pale dull golden area against the head and a few of similar 
Fig. 69. 
Wing of Pseudoskusea similis . ?. nov. sp. 
colour over the wings and before the scutellum ; scutellum dark 
with dull golden and brown narrow-curved scales ; black posterior 
border-bristles, apparently four to the mid lobe; metanotum 
black; pleurae deep brown with patches of flat dull white scales. 
Abdomen black, showing median lateral white spots above, 
which arise from more lateral basal white spots ; these are most 
prominent on the apical segments than on the basal ones. 
Legs black, unbanded, paler t , at base and on the venter 
of the femora, traces of pale scales in certain lights at apices of 
