840 AUSTRALIA?? CULICID.E, iv., 



Thorax with brown scales, and long, black bristles, apparently 

 in four rows; a short, pre-alar line of bluish-white scales; scu- 

 tellum with brown scales, pleurae brownish, with bluish-white, 

 flat scales. 



Abdomen covered with black scales; venter brown-scaled. 



Wings longer than abdomen; first fork-cell shorter and nar- 

 rower than second; base of latter much nearer the base of the 

 wing; stem of the first nearly twice the length of its cell; stem 

 of second about the length of its cell; anterior basal cross- vein 

 longer than anterior cross- vein, and once and a half its length 

 from it. 



Legs dusky-brown, femora basally pale beneath; apex of fore- 

 tibiai with a tuft of long, brown, hair-like scales, second tarsal 

 clothed with fairly long scales, tarsi three to five pale; ungues 

 of forelegs simple, rectangular, mid apparently the same. 



9. Similar to male Scales on the costa, subcostal and first 

 longitudinal veins duskv as in male. Fore tibipe normal. 



Length: ^, 1-75; 9, 1-5 mm. 



Hab.— Q.: Cairns (F. H. Taylor). 



Described from one male and two female specimens, bred from 

 larvae. The black abdomen, venation, and fore-tibiaa of the male 

 render this species distinct from its Australian congeners. The 

 lengths are only approximately correct, as the specimens are 

 doubled up. 



Uranot^nia propria Taylor. 



Trans. Ent. Soc. London, 1914, Ft. iv., p.704. 



Q, Similar to male. First fork-cell shorter and narrower than 

 second; stem of former nearly twice the length of its cell, stem 

 of latter slightly longer than cell, anterior basal cross-vein longer 

 than anterior cross-vein, and once and one-half its^ own length 

 from it. Legs normal. 



Hab. Q.: Cairns (F. H. Taylor). 



This species was, previously, only known from the male. 



URANOTiENIA ANTENNALIS, Sp.n. 



Q. Head with pale scales in the centre, blackish elsewhere; 

 eyes black; antenna? brown, basal lobes yellowish, first segment 



