292 A Monograph of Culicidae. 
SKUSEA FUNEREA. 0. Sp. 
Head and thorax dark brown, the latter with deep bronzy 
brown narrow-curved scales. Abdomen black, with narrow white 
bands which spread out to form lateral white spots, the white 
bands not basal, but on basal half, the banding absent on the last 
two segments, the lateral white spots prominent. Legs dark 
brown, unbanded, bases and venter of femora pallid. 
@. Head. covered with flat black 
scales, with violet reflections ; palpi, clypeus 
and proboscis black, palpi short, scaly and 
bristly ; antennae dark brown, basal joint 
dark, nude, second joint testaceous at the 
base. 
Thorax black, with long curved hair- 
like bronzy scales and numerous black 
bristles, which are dense over the roots of 
the wings, there are also median and 
lateral rows on the mesothorax ; scutellum 
dark brown, with narrow pale dull golden 
curved scales and numerous dark border- 
bristles ; metanotum black ; pleurae black, 
bristly, with patches of white scales, three 
prominent. 
Abdomen with peculiar ornamentation, 
deep brown, banded with black and white ; 
first segment entirely deep brown, with 
violet reflections, second segment deep 
brown, a few white scales in the middle 
close to the base, but not basal, lateral 
. . ee white spots not quite basal; in the third, 
Skusea funerea. N. Sp. : : 
a, head: b, abdomen, 0urth, fifth and sixth segments the bases 
are banded with darker brown, almost 
black, and then follows an irregular white band which spreads 
out laterally to form distinct lateral white spots, seventh seg- 
ment with lateral white spots only, apex black; the whole 
abdomen shows violet reflections in some lights; posterior 
border-bristles pale dusky brown ; venter also with white bands 
on the basal half of the segments. 
Legs dark brown to black, coxae and bases and venter of 
femora pale; fore, mid and hind ungues equal and simple, the 
fore rather straighter than the mid; legs rather bristly, femora 
somewhat enlarged. 


