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ous small patches of brilliant silvery-white scales; covered above with silvery- white 

 scales; scutellum very dark brown, covered above with silvery-white scales and 

 fringed with long brown hairs; dark brown. Halteres ochre-yellow. Abdomen a 

 little more than twice the length of the thorax, densely clothed with violet-black 

 scales, the second to sixth segments bordered anteriorly with a narrow band of 

 white, those on the last three short and not reaching the lateral borders, each seg- 

 ment with a small patch of brilliant silvery -white scales at the sides; venter covered 

 with yellowish and violet-black scales, the latter predominating; holding-forceps 

 black or very deep brown, densely haired. Coxae brown with silvery-white scales. 

 Femora, tibiae and tarsi covered with violet-black scales; the femora with white 

 scales along the sides nearly to the tip and beneath on the basal half, the extreme 

 apex silvery-white; the first two joints of the fore and intermediate, and all the 

 joints of the hind tarsi, ringed with silvery-white at the base, those of the first two 

 pairs of tarsi very slight. In the hind-legs, the tibia about % longer than the 

 metatarsus. "Wings about the length of the abdomen, hyaline, the veins covered 

 with violet-brown scales. Auxiliary vein reaching the costa opposite the cross-vein, 

 and much before the tip of the posterior branch of the fork of the fifth longitudinal; 

 middle cross-vein shorter than the posterior cross-vein, situated beyond it a dis- 

 tance a little greater than the length of the latter; first sub-marginal cell consider- 

 ably longer and almost imperceptibly narrower than the second posterior cell, its 

 base lying almost opposite that of the latter; anterior branch of the fifth longitudinal 

 vein as in the last species. 



Hab. Brisbane, Queensland (Drs. J. and T. L. Bancroft). Several specimens. 



December. 



Original Description of Cxjlex elegans: 



II maschio e succhiatore di sangue e punge acutamente. II G. elegans e zanzara 

 prettamente diurna. Palpi nel (^ appena piit, lungM della proboscide, appuntati; 

 neri, con 4 anelli bianco-argentei: nella $ con ultimo articolo bianco-argenteo, gli 

 altri neri, ma il penuUimo con macchiolina nivea. Proboscide nera. Torace su 

 fondo bruno-scuro ha elegantissime ornamentazioni argentee. Ali fuUginose; 

 forchette alari con ramuli piU lunghi dei respettivi scapi; lo scapo anteriore e il 

 posteriore presso a pace della stessa lunghezza. Anche scure, argentate. Femori 

 bianchicci in corrispondenza della radice e inferiormente, fuor che nella porzione 

 distale; superiormente, eccetto la radice, neri; con piccolo anello niveo alia lore 

 estremitd distale, che, senza intervento della tibia, fa apparire nivei tutti i ginocchi. 

 Tibie nere. Tarsi delle due prime paia con articulo 1 e 2 nero, annulato di bianco 

 alia base (solamente) , gli altri articoli neri, non annulati, tarsi del terzo paio con 1, 

 2", 3, 4 articolo neri aniiulati di bianco alia base (solamente) , il 5 articolo del 

 tutto bianco. Addome dorsalmente su tinta fondamentale bruno-nera presenta 

 eleganti ornamentazioni argentee, tra le quali 7 o 8 macchie laterali argentee per 

 parte; ventralmente ha tinta bruno-nera {predominante) , giallo paglia e argentea, 

 disposte in ornamentazioni eleganti. 



[Followed by a detailed description of male and female occupying four pages, 

 in Italian.] 



Original Description of Culex rossii: 



Size of Parts in Male and Female Specimens. 



MALE. FEMALE. 



Head 0.6 mm. Head 0.8 mm. 



Thorax 1.3 " Thorax 1.5 



Abdomen 2.8 " Abdomen 2.9 



Proboscis 2.2 " Proboscis 2.1 



Palpus 2.2 " Palpus 0.45 " 



Antenna 1.3 " 



Wing 2.9 + 0.7 " Wing 4.4 + 0.9 



Wings unspotted. Tarsi white-ringed at the bases of the first and second joints 

 only on all the legs, which also show minute knee spots. Body dark brown, brindled 

 with white in the male; the abdomen with basal white bands to the first five seg- 

 ments, and a median white line: coloration of the female, lighter and less brilliant, 

 the brown being lighter and the white less pure. 



Head black, with a white nuchal collar. Eyes black, with brown reflexes and a 

 margin of white scales. Antennae, with the globular basal joint black, saving a 

 broad ring of white on its anterior face, round the insertion of the second joint; 

 the remaining joints whitish, with black verticils, the roots of which have the effect 

 of minute black bands; the last two joints deep brown, and together forming more 

 than a fourth of the length of the appendage. Proboscis deep brown, a little paler 

 beneath, near the end. Palpi exactly equal in length to the proboscis, black with 



