842 AUSTRALIAN CULICID^, iv., 



found in Uranotceniaj but I prefer to regard this species as 

 belonging to that genus. 



Mr. Hill notes "larvae in crab-holes in mangrove-swamps." It 

 affords me much pleasure to dedicate this species to its discoverer. 



Paratype in Coll. Hill. 



HoDGEsiA CAiRNSENSis, sp.n. (Plate Ixxxiii., figs. 13, 14). 



Head with black and bluish scales. Thorax orange, witii pro- 

 minent black markings. Abdomen l)lack-scaled, fifth segment 

 apically white, the second to sixth segments laterally white. 

 Legs unhanded. 



9. Head with black scales, with a triangular patch of bluish- 

 white scales on the occiput and on the sides towards th^ base; 

 eyes, palpi, and proboscis black; antennae black, first joint long, 

 ba.sal half yellowish. 



Thorax orange, with a prominent black spot above the wing- 

 roots, and a broad, median, brown stripe from the centre to the 

 posterior margin of the scutellum, sparsely covered with sliort, 

 hair-like scales: scutellum pale on the sides, covered with small, 

 black scales; prothoracic lobes with pale, flat scales. 



Abdomen with black scales, first segment paler, segments two 

 to six with lateral, white patches, fifth with a broad, white- 

 scaled, apical band, apex bristly; venter pale-scaled, apical seg- 

 ment dark. 



Wings considerably longer than abdomen, black-scaled; first 

 fork-cell longer and narrower than second, base of the latter a 

 little nearer the base of tlie wing: stem of the first fork-cell 

 about three-quarters the length of the cell, stem of second about 

 two thirds of its cell; base of second long vein carried well beyond 

 the transverse vein; halteres pale, with black knobs. 



Legs black; femora wdth the basal half above, and the under- 

 surface, creamy; ungues very small, equal and simple. 



Length, 1 -5 mm. 



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



Described from a long series taken in shady situations, on the 

 edges of swamps, mainly sheltering in tree-holes, It is readily 

 distinguished from //. trianynlata Taylor, by its thorax and 

 abdominal bandiiiii'. 



