Horváth Géza (szerk.): A Magyar Természettudományi Múzeum évkönyve 3. (Budapest 1905)
Theobald, F. V.: A catalogue of the Culicidae in the Hungarian National Museum with description of new genera and species
9-2 FRED. V. THEOBALD lateral pairs ; scutellum pale. Abdomen with apical silvery patches. Legs spotted. 5. Head brown with narrow-curved silvery grey scales, dense along the borders of the eves, flat grey lateral ones and numerous black upright forked scales ; palpi testaceous with brown scales and snowy white apex; clypeus bright brown; proboscis brown scaled, the middle with a broad yellow scaled band, a few pale scales at the apex ; antennae deep brown, with narrow pale bands at the verticills, basal joint bright ochreous, second joint less so with black scales; the frons distinctly produced between the antennae as in Rhynchomyia. Thorax deep brown with small narrow-curved rich bright brown scales, with three silvery white scaled spots in front near the neck and two lateral pairs behind, there are also scattered silvery scales over and behind the root of the wings and around the bare space in front of the scutellum. bristles dense, deep brown and black ; scutellum brown, the mid lobe very large and prominent, densely clothed with narrow-curved dull silvery scales, border-bristles long, black, six to the mid lobe ; metanotum deep brown; pleurae brown with a patch of flat silvery white scales. Abdomen deep brown, the two basal segments with median yellow scaled spots, apical lateral silvery white spots to the segments which on the last two spread out on to the dorsum so that most of the surface is white scaled; posterior border-brist.les golden brown; venter with the segments basally ochreous. white apically. Legs brown, spotted and banded with white as follows : fore femora with five white spots on one side, two on the other, apex white, base yellowish, fore tibiae with five white spots and a broad yellow apex ; metatarsi with a median white spot, first and second tarsals with a dorsal basal white spot, last two segments ochreous brown, unspotted ; mid femora and tibiae the same and also the tarsi ; hind similar but with traces of pale basal spots 011 all the tarsi ; ungues equal and simple. Wings with brown and yellow scales ; fork-cells long, the first submarginal a little longer and slightly narrower than the second posterior, its base a little nearer the apex of the wing, its stem more than half the length of the cell, stem of the second posterior cell more than half the length of the cell ; posterior cross-vein nearly three times its length distant from the mid; border-scales small (not Mansonia-like). Leiigth : 4*5 mm. Habitat : Friedrich-Wilhelmshafen, New Guinea ( BÍRÓ, 1901). Time of capture : November. Observations. Closely related to M. aumdipes WALK, but the thorax
