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AUSTRALIAN CUDICID^, iii., 



Described from a single ^specimen. The tvpe (^) was in \ery 

 poor condition, hence the above detailed description of the 9. 

 There are certain discrepancies in the two descriptions concerning 

 the abdomen, but I feel sure the}' belong to the same species. 



Mr. Hill notes that, when at rest, the 9 carries the hind legs 

 backwards over the abdomen. 



CULICAUA HYBRIDA, Sp.n. 



Head with pale and brown scales. Thorax w ith Ijronzc-coloured 

 scales with golden reflections. Abdomen unhanded. Tarsi with 

 basal banding. 



9. Head densely clothed with pale and brown narrow-cur\ed 

 scales, with mixed pale and black upright-forked scales; palpi 

 black, with a few white scales at the apex of the second segment, 

 apex white-scaled ; antenna- brown, verticillate hairs brown, 

 pubescence pale; proboscis black. 



Thorax chestnut, clothed with bnmze-coloured scales with 

 golden reflections; scutellum paler than the thorax, with pale 

 scales; pleuive i)ale brown, with small white flat scales. 



Abdomen clothed \\ ith dusky scales, unhanded, segments four 

 to six with conspicuous white lateral spots, border-bristles pale; 

 venter inottled with brown and pale scales. 



AMngs: costa, sub-costal, and first long vein with violet-black 

 scales, remaining vein-scales dusky; first fork-cell longer and 

 narrower than the second, their bases about le\'el, stem of the 

 first about two-thirds the length of the cell, of the second about 

 as long as its cell; antei-ior basal cross-vein al)out the length of, 

 and aljout once and one-half its length from, the anterior cross 

 vein; fringe dusky. 



Legs black, femora mottled with })ale scales, knee-spots creamv, 

 first three tarsals of fore- and mid-legs with white basal ])anding, 

 fourth and fifth unl)anded, first four tarsals of hindlegs similarly 

 l)anded, fifth unhanded ; ungues ecjual, uniserrate. 



Length, 4 "5 mm. 



Ilnb.—N.HAy.: Milson Island (J)r. J. B. Cleland). 



Type uni([ue. It njay be distinguished from C. bujjatujariji'niiis 



