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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 ;

> lobe (Fig. 15. c) ; metanotum nude, black; pleurae brown with flat silvery white scales. Abdomen black, unhanded ; venter silvery white ; apex bristly. Legs uniformly brown, with ochreous sheen in certain lights ; ungues small, equal and simple. Wings with typical brown Culex- scales (Plate IV); the first submarginal cell longer and very slightly narrower than the second posterior cell, its base a little nearer the base of the wing, its stem about one-third the length of the cell, stem of the second posterior about one half the length of the cell ; posterior cross-vein rather more than twice its own length distant from the mid ; the lateral vein-scales are rather long, especially on the basal part of the second and fourth veins. Halteres with testaceous stem and fuscous knob with some pallid scales. Length: 3'5 to 4 mm. Habitat: Paumomu Eiver, New Guinea (LORIA, IX

—XII. 1892). Observations: Described from five J's. It is easily identified by the thoracic scales and the black abdomen with silvery venter. It is subject to considerable variation in size and in apparently the relative length of the palpi and proboscis, also in the relative distance of the posterior cross-vein and mid cross-vein. Genus CORETHRA MEIG. ILLIGER'S Magaz. II. 260 (1803) MEIGEN. 1. Corethra plumicornis FABR. Ent. Syst. IV. 246. 58 (17!)4) FABRICIUS; Monogr. Culicid. II. p. 299 (1901) THEOBALD ; Állattan. Közi. III. 74 (1904) KERTÉSZ. Specimens from numerous places in Hungary. (Vide : KERTÉSZ

, p. 75). Also recorded from many other parts of Europe. Fig. 15. Polylepidomyia argenteiventris n. sp. — a cephalic, b scutellar ornamentation ; c border-bristles of scutellum.