BY FRANK H. TAYLOK. o69 



Theol).. 1)v till' (Hrt'ei-ently colourcil thm-ax, the alHlomeu witli Imt 

 three sei^inents ^vith basal lateral spots, the Ijasaliy handed taisi, 

 and the hind-iinuiies being uuiserrate. 



CULICADA DEMANSis Sti-ieklaiid. 



Entuiuolo-ist, xliv., No.577, p.l'Oli (I'Jll). 



Hnb.—^.ii.W.: Milsou Island.— Tasni. : Hillwcod (F. M. 

 Littler). 



Two specimens received from I )r. C'lcland differ from the Tas- 

 manian specimens in the InvStitute-CoUeetion only in ha\ iiig the 

 stems of the fork-cells shorter. 



CuLiCADA TASMANiENSis Htricklaiid. 



Entomologist, xliv., No. 57 6, p. 181 (1911). 



Additional specimens have been received from INIr. Littler, and 

 Mr. W. H. Twelvetrees per Mr. Littler. This seems to be the 

 commonest and most widely distributed Tasmanian species. 



H<(h. — Tasm. : Devonport, JSpringtield, St. Patrick's River (F. 

 :NL Littler), New River District (W. H. Twelvetrees). 



Leucomyia vicina, sp.n. 



Head and anterior two-thirds of thoi'ax white-scaled. Abdo- 

 men with white basal banding. Tarsi basally banded white. 



^. Head clothed with white scales; autenn;e pale, nodes black, 

 })lumes dark; palpi black; penultimate and apical segments with 

 a narrow white basal baud, apical half of the apical segment 

 white, hairs black except on apical half of last segment; pro- 

 boscis black, a white band at the apex of the middle third, with 

 a small tuft of hairs beneath at its base. 



Thorax with anterior two-thirds clothed with dense white 

 scales, laterally a dense row of flat white ones, posterior third and 

 scutellum covered with brown narrow-curved scales ; pre-alar 

 bristles brown: pleurit broN\ n, clothed with scattered white scales. 



Abdomen black-scaled, with white basal banding, seventh and 

 eighth apically banded also, latei-al and [)Osterior border-bristles 

 golden; venter pale-scaled. 



