Genus Skusea. 993 
Wings with the veins brown scaled, the upper border dark, 
slightly smoky ; fork-cells rather short; first sub-marginal cell 
longer, but no narrower than the second posterior cell, its base a 
little nearer the base of the wing, its stem about half the length 
of the cell; stem of the second posterior cell about as long as 
the cell; posterior cross-vein from one to one and a half times 
its own length distant from the mid cross-vein. Halteres with 
-pale stem and fuscous knob. 
Length.—4 mm. 
Time of capture.—April. 
Habitat.—Queensland (Dr. Bancroft). 
Observations.—A very distinct Aedes, told by the white 
abdominal banding, which looks basal to the naked eye, but 
which is separated from the base of the segments by a darker 
basal band, 
It resembles V. Butlert and V. nigricorpus, but can be told 
from the former by the simple ungues, from the latter by the 
white abdominal fascia. Dr. Bancroft has sent over a series 
of the species. The types are deposited in the British Museum 
collection. 
SKUSEA MULTIPLEX. nN. sp. 
Head black, with paler scales in the middle and yellow ones 
at the sides. Thorax dark brown, with hair-like curved bronzy 
black scales over the surface and 
two paler patches of narrow-curved 
scales, extending more or less 
across the mesonotum. Abdo- 
men blackish, with bright border- 
bristles, giving it a quasi-banded 
appearance, and with lateral basal 
white spots. Legs black, un- b 
banded ; fore and mid ungues of 
the 9 equal and uniserrated. 
@. Head covered with flat 
scales of a deep brown to black 
colour with violet reflections, och- 
raceous in the middle, at the sides Be 
and around the eyes, and with a need a eee caries eo. 
numerous black upright forked 
scales behind; clypeus, palpi and proboscis black : antennae 
deep brown, basal joint and base of the second joint tesieiceane. 


