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CONTRIBUTIONS TO A KNOWLEDGE OF AUSTRA- 

 LIAN CULICID.E. No. iv.* 



By Frank H. Taylor, F.E.S. 



(From the Australian Institute of Tropical Medicine, Townsville). 



(Plates Ixxx.-lxxxiii.) 



This paper may be divided into two parts, synonymical and 

 descriptive, with notes on previously described species. 



Two species described by me from the Northern Territory 

 belong to species recorded from extra-Australian localities; 

 their distribution is noted in the text. The Australian Anopheles 

 are also tabulated. It will be seen that very few of the Ano- 

 plieline genera are recognised, and those only as subgenera, 

 except in the case of Bironella. 



The new species are distributed in the following genera : — 

 Pseudoskusea (one), Mimeteomyia (tw^o), Culicada (one), Lof>ho- 

 ceratoiyiyia (one), Uranotcenia (four), and Hodgesia (one). 



The type-specimens are contained in the Institute Collection. 



The following tabulation of the Australian Anopheles is given 

 in the hope that it may prove useful in the determination of the 

 species in question. 



Anopheles corethroides, A. stiymatiats, and B. gracilis have 

 been tabulated from descriptions only, as the Institute does not 

 possess specimens of them. A . pu7ictulatus Donitz, is omitted 

 from the Table, as it is unknown to me either from specimens or 

 description. 



It will be seen that all the species, except B. gracilis, are 

 placed in the genus Anopheles. This is best explained by re- 

 ferring the reader to a paper by A. Alcock,t which deals with 

 the "Classification of the Culicidse," and with which the writer 



* Continued from these Proceedings, 1916, p. 574. 

 + Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., (8), viii., p. 240 (1911). 





