Genus Skusea. 
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Skusea pseudomediofasciata. nov. sp. 
Head black; thorax rich brown. Abdomen black, with more 
or less basal grey lateral spots. Legs deep brown, unbanded. 
Allied to S . mediofasciata, Theob , but differs in $ genitalia 
and venation. 
4 • Head clothed with flat black scales, showing dull 
ochreous and violet reflections and black chaetae. Antennae 
brown with black plume hairs arising from black areas; basal 
Fig. 211. 
Wing of Skusea pseudomediofasciata. S- n. sp. 
segments globular, dark except on one side ; palpi small, black 
scaled ; proboscis black. 
Thorax rich brown with narrow-curved bronzy scales and 
black chaetae, showing bronzy reflections; scutellum brown 
with narrow-curved pale bronzy scales, and dark brown border- 
bristles ; metanotum bright brown; pleurae brown with some 
pale flat scales. 
Abdomen black, basal lateral grey spots, some extending to 
the middle and being more median than basal; brown border- 
bristles with pale golden reflections. 
Legs deep brown, unbanded ; femora pale beneath and femora 
and tibiae with pale spines; fore and mid ungues unequal and the 
larger uniserrate, smaller simplehind equal and simple. 
Wings with the first fork-cell longer and narrower than the 
second, their bases nearly level, stem of the first not quite as 
long as the cell; stem of the second longer than the cell; posterior 
cross-vein about as long as the mid, rather more than its own 
length distant from it. Halteres with pale stem and fuscous knob. 
Male genitalia very marked ; the claspers short and blunt 
with some large dark, blunt teeth; harpogones and harpes long 
and spine-like. 
Length .—3 • 5 mm. 
