Descriptions of two new species of Culex (Lophoceraomyia) with notes on three other species from the Papuan subregion (Diptera: Culicidae).

Two new species, Culex (Lobhoceraomyia) submarginalis and C. (L.) castaneus from New Guinea, are described; the record of C. cubitatus Colless is confirmed; a new record of C. solomonis (Edwards) from the Mollucas is given and C. caeruleus King & Hoogstraal is synonymized with C. digoelensis Brug. This paper is a supplement to my revision of Culex, subgenus [email protected], in New Guinea and Bismarck Archipelago (Sirivanakarn 1968). In that paper, I recognized and described 33 species, most of which were based on the study of material accumulated at the Bernice P. Bishop Museum, Honolulu. However, in recent years while working on the subgenus at the Southeast Asia Mosquito Project, Smithsonian Institution, I have examined additional specimens including some types at the U. S. National Museum as well as specimens which were loaned to the Southeast Asia Mosquito Project by the Institut voor Tropische Hygiene, Amsterdam, Holland and the School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, Sydney, Australia. This study has revealed 2 undescribed species, confirmed the record from New Guinea of C. cubitatus Colless, provided a new record of C. solomonis (Edwards) from the Mollucas and shown that C. caeruleus King & Hoogstraal is a synonym of C. digoelensis Brug. Culex (Lophoceraomyia) submarginalis, n. sp.