BY FRANK H. TAYLOR. 



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me, on abdominal markings alone, as, in some specimens, the 

 abdomen is quite typical, whilst, in others, it varies from speci- 

 mens with distinct basal banding on the first two segments of 

 the abdomen, and the remainder with more or less indefinitely 

 banded and mottled, to those with indefinite basal banding and 

 dense mottling of creamy scales on all the abdominal segments. 



The base of the second fork-cell is slightl}^ nearer the base of 

 the wing than that of the first, while they are nearly level in 

 the type. 



Specimens from Eidsvold, Queensland, show similar inter- 

 gradient forms to the above Victorian specimens. 



Hal). — Vic: Bamawm, Kyabram, Mildura, and Echuca (F. H. 

 Taylor). 



CuLiCADA wiLSONi, n.sp. (Plate Ixxxi., figs. 5, 6, 7). 



(J. Head black, covered with yellowish, narrow-curved and 

 upright-forked scales, with a few yellowish hairs projecting over 

 the eyes, sides of head with flat ones; palpi longer than proboscis, 

 black, first joint pale-scaled, except the apical fourth, pubescence 

 black on the apical segment, and apex of first, yellowish-brown 

 on the penultimate segment; antennse pale, nodes dark, plumes 

 brownish-black, dense. 



Thorax black, covered with yellowish, narrow-curved scales; 

 prothoracic lobes with flat ones; scutellum similar; pleura? black, 

 with flat scales. 



Abdomen black, first segment pale-scaled, second to seventh 

 with broad, yellowish, basal banding; sixth, seventh, and eighth 

 mottled; some specimens show median pale-scaled bands on most 

 of the segments; genitalia with some long, black hairs, latera\ 

 pubescence dense, yellowish; venter pale. 



Legs black, femora pale beneath; femora, tibise, and tarsi 

 mottled; fore-ungues unequal, uniserrate, mid unequal, the larger 

 deeply notched, the smaller uniserrate, hind equal and simple. 



Wings with brown scales; first fork-cell longer and narrower 

 than the second, base of latter nearer the base of the wing, stem 

 of the first almost as long as its cell, stem of second as long as 

 the cell; anterior basal cross-vein about as long as, and nearly 



