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
CATALOGUE OF THE CULICIDAE IN THE HUNGARIAN NATIONAL MUSEUM. i' l ; > keel scales. Proboscis deep brown ; palpi very short, brown ; antennae slightly plumose, brown. Thorax deep brown with rather large narrow-curved bronzy scales in the middle, a few golden ones at the sides and in front, a few dark bristles over the roots of the wings ; prothoracic lobes with small golden narrow-curved scales ; scutellum (Fig. 136.) paler, the mid lobe with small flat scales showing brown, violet and ochreous reflections, the lateral lobes with dull creamy narrow-curved scales ; pleurae pale brown with patches of flat silvery scales ; metanotum brown. Abdomen narrow and long, slightly expanding apically, deep black, with basal lateral white spots. Legs brown with bronzy reflections; coxae pale and the venter of the femora pale brown ; fore ungues unequal, the larger with a small tooth towards the apex, the smaller simple ; mid ungues unequal, both simple ; hind small, equal and simple (Fig. 13. c, d, e). Wings with the forkcells short the first submarginal narrower but no longer than the second posterior cell, its stem the same length as the cell, its base level with that of the second posterior cell ; stem of the second posterior the same < 0 . , , rig. 13. Leptosomatomyia Lateralis n. length as the cell; posterior cross- sp < ^ _ a cephalic;'fo scutellar orvéin longer than the mid and about namentation ; c, d and e fore, mid and its own length distant from it, the hind ungues of cf. mid much shorter than the supernumerary thus bringing the third long vein close to the fourth. Halteres with testaceous stem and fuscous knob. Length : 4 mm. Habitat: Muina. New Guinea (P IRO . 1000). Time of capture: 31st December. Observations. Described from a perfect cf, partly dissected. It cannot be placed in any known Aedine genus, so a new genus has been founded for it. The abdomen is very long and thin, but whether this character will occur also in the J remains to be seen.
