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

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RED. V. THEOBALD Genus AEDES MEIG. Syst. Beschr. 1. 13. (1818) MEIGEN; Monogr. Culicid. II. 224 (1901) and III. 2S5 (1904) THEOBALD. 1. Aedes cinereus MEIG. Aedes rufus GIMMERTHAL. Syst. Beschr. 1. 13. 1 (MEIGEN) 1818 ; Monogr. Culicid. II. p. 232 (THEOBALD) 1902 ; Állattan. Közi. III. p. 72 (KERTÉSZ) 1904. Specimens occur in the collection from various places in Hungary (vide : KERTÉSZ). Two sent me (a c? and 9 ) have been carefully examined and in the ç . I find as I described in my Monograph p. 232 that the hind ungues are equal and simple, not uniserrated as figured by KERTÉSZ (p. 73. fig. 37. h. IH.). The fiat. head scales in the male from Hungary are more creamy than those from Britain. For full bibliography vide : KERTÉSZ. Genus LEPTOSOM ATOM YIA nov. gen. Head clothed mostly with flat scales, a few narrow-curved ones in the middle line and upright forked scales behind. Antennae in the tf lightly plumose; palpi in d" very short. Thorax with narrow-curved scales also the prothoracic lobes; scutellum with small flat scales to the mid lobe, narrow-curved ones on the lateral lobes. Fork-cells of cT short ; median vein-scales mostly in single line : lateral vein-scales linear, rather thick. Distinguised from other Aedine genera by the cephalic and scutellar squamose characters. 1. Leptosomatomyia lateralis n. sp. Head deep brown with a few median golden scales; palpi, proboscis and antennae deep brown. Thorax deep brown with brighter brown scales ; pleurae paler with patches of white scales. Abdomen black with basal white lateral spots. Legs brown, pale basally. cf. Head (Fig. 13a.) deep brown, mostly clothed with deep brown flat scales, some small golden narrow-curved ones around the eyes and a in the mid line of the head, behind some dull yellowish upright for-