572 AUSTRALIAN CULICID^, iii., 



(J. Head (lark l)i-(i\vn, clothed w itli brown narrow- curved scales 

 medially, rest of head with small flat pale ones: proboscis 

 l)rowii: paljji brown, with a conspicuous thumb-like process on 

 each side at the base, longer than proboscis by the apical third 

 of the penultimate and apical segments, apex of the first and the 

 last two segments clothed with brown hairs; antenna; pale, 

 nodes and last two segments brown, plumes brown, dense, the 

 fiat plates on the sixth segment long and black, seventh and 

 eighth segments with short black wavy plates, those on the ninth 

 longer, black, spoon-shaped toward the apex, the pectinated pro- 

 cesses on the nodes of the tenth to thirteenth segments con 

 spicuous. 



Thorax chestnut-bi'own, clothed with small narrow-curved, 

 bronze-coloured sceles ; scutellum paler, with similar narrow- 

 curved scales; pleurse brown, clothed with bi'own bristles. 



Abdomen clothed with black scales, first segment densely 

 clothed with l)rown hairs, segments three to seven with basal 

 grey-white bands, scales on eighth segment paler; genitalia light 

 brown with numerous brown hairs ; posterior border-bristles 

 yellowish-brown; ^"enter brown. 



Legs black, unhanded, femora pale beneath; ungues of fore- 

 legs very uneijual, tlie larger with a stout tooth, mid- unecjual, 

 the larger with a small tooth, in both the fore- and mid-ungues 

 the larger is sickle-shaped, the smaller almost straight, hind 

 small, e(pial and simple. 



AMngs: the costa, subcostal, and first long veins with dark 

 blown scales, remaining vein-scales paler; first fork-cell' longer 

 and narrower than the second, base of the former slightly nearer 

 the base of the winy; stem of the first fork -cell about half, of the 

 second fork-cell about two-thirds, the length of their cells ; 

 anterior basal cross-vein about as long as, and about once and a 

 half its length from, the anterior cross-vein; second inci-assation 

 well defined; fringe dusky; halteres with pale stems and brown 

 knobs. 



9. Similar to ^\ antenn;e brown, \erticillate hairs dark brown, 

 pubescence pale; [lalpi witli mixed dark and pale scales; pro- 



