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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 Genus DENDROMYIA THEOB. Monogr. Culicid. III. p. 316. (19031. 1. Dendromyia quasiluteoventralis THEOB. Monogr. Culicid. III. 317. (1903). A single J from Songo. Bolivia. It is somewhat larger than the specimens I have seen from British Guiana. Genus POLYLEPIDOMYIA. nov. gen. (Plates I and IV.) Head (Fig. 15a.) clothed with flat scales over all the front, sides and centre ; a small area behind of narrow-curved scales and some upright forked ones. Palpi short but moderately developed in the $ . Antennae of J pilose, verticillate hairs long. Proboscis moderately long. Thorax clothed with large, narrow-curved scales ; prothoracic lobes with small flat scales ; scutellum (b) with flat scales ; metanotum nude. Apex of abdomen very bristly. Wings with Gî</e.r-venation and scales. This genus founded on five j 's comes apparently in the Aedinae. Both palpi and proboscis show variation in relative lengths. The nearest related genera seem to be Dendromyia and Plionioinyia but the absence of metathoracic chaetae and the different wing scales and cephalic ornamentation will at once separate it. 1. Polylepidomyia argenteiventris n. sp. Head deep brown, dull ochreous in the middle, the sides silvery white. Thorax deep brown clothed with bronzy brown scales ; prothoracic lobes white. Abdomen black above, unhanded, venter silvery white. Legs deep brown unhanded. J . Head (Fig. 15. a) deep brown, with deep brown flat scales with ochreous line in the middle and silvery white at the sides ; with some upright forked scales at the back and some small pale narrow-curved ones. Clypeus bright brown ; palpi and proboscis deep brown. Antennae deep brown, the basal joint paler, pilose, hairs rather long. Thorax deep brown with a dense matting of rather large broad curved bronzy scales, irregularly disposed ; prothoracic lobes with small flat silvery scales ; scutellum (Fig. 15. b) testaceous with flat violet brown scales and with four large and two small (central) bristles to the mid