Genus Skusea. 
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Skusea pseudodiurna. Theobald (1910). 
Eec. Ind. Mus.,TV. 32 (1910). 
Head dusky or pale according to the light. Thorax bright 
reddish-brown. Abdomen with basal white lateral spots. Legs 
brown, unbanded. 
d . Head dark, clothed with a mixture of flat dusky and 
pale grey scales and numerous dark upright forked scales and 
many black chaetae projecting forwards ; antennae with dark 
plume hairs, and pale grey internodes, dusky at the tip ; palpi 
very small, dark brown; proboscis deep brown. 
Thorax bright deep reddish-brown, with scanty scattered 
bronzy narrow-curved scales and with black chaetae, especially 
thick over the roots of the wings; scutellum testaceous with 
narrow-curved dull creamy and bronzy scales to the mid lobe, 
dark ones to the lateral lobes ; metanotum bright chestnut-brown. 
Abdomen black with basal white lateral spots, most pro¬ 
minent on the last few segments, with pale brown border- 
bristles ; venter dusky. 
Legs uniformly deep brown, except the coxae and under side 
of the femora which are pale ; fore and mid ungues unequal and 
uniserrate, hind equal and simple. 
Wings with short fork-cell, the first longer and narrower 
than the second, stem of the first nearly as long as the cell, stem 
of the second longer than the cell; posterior cross-vein its own 
length distant from the mid. 
Length .—4 mm. 
Habitat. —Sukna, 500 feet, E. Himalayas. 
Time of capture. —1. vii. 08. 
Observations .—Described from a single $ . V ery near Skusea 
diurna, but the bright reddish-brown thorax at once separates it. 
Type in the Indian Museum, Calcutta. 
Skusea uniform is. Theobald (1910). 
Rec. Ind. Mus., IY. 33 (1910). 
Head black, with a pale border around the eyes. Thorax 
rich brown. Abdomen deep brown, unbanded, dull ochreous 
below. Legs uniformly deep brown, but the femora pale 
ochreous below. 
9 • Head black, with small iiat black scales, except for a 
pale area around the' eyes and at the sides and some dark 
