458 AUSTRALIAN CULICIDJH, i., 



Thorax black, clothed with dark brown, narrow-curved scales, 

 and a few golden ones on the sides; prothoracic lobes black, clothed 

 with white, narrow-curved scales; scutellum pale brown, clothed 

 with white, flat scales ; pleurae clothed with white, flat scales ; meta- 

 notum pale brown. 



Abdomen pale, unhanded, clothed with black scales with a cop- 

 pery tint, first segment with a few dark hairs also, with white basal 

 lateral spots to all the segments, posterior border-bristles pale; 

 venter pale beneath, penultimate and apical segments dark-scaled. 



Legs black, with coppery reflections, with basal pale spots on 

 tlie first and second tarsi of the fore- and mid-legs; hind-legs with 

 the first three tarsals with white basal banding, the fourth un- 

 handed, fifth all white ; ungues equal and simple. 



Wings with the costa, subcostal, and first longitudinal veins 

 densely clothed with black scales, remaining veins and fringe 

 clothed with dusky-brown scales ; first fork-cell longer and but little 

 narrower than the second, stem of the former about one-third the 

 length of its cell, stem of the latter about one-half the length of 

 the cell; base of the first fork-cell nearer the base of the wing than 

 that of the second fork-cell ; anterior basal cross-vein about its own 

 length from the aiy;erior cross-vein, halteres pale. 



Length, 2-5 mm. (vix). 



Hah. — Townsville, Queensland. 



Described from a single perfect specimen taken while biting in 

 the daytime. The above species is relatively close to A. alhoanmi- 

 latus Theobald, but can be distinguished from it by the leg-banding, 

 ungues, and wing-venation. 



Var. DARWiNi, n.var. 

 (PI. XXXV., fig. 8.) 

 ^. Head-clothing similar to type. Antennae pale, plumes brown. 

 Thorax as in the type. Legs as in the type; ungues of fore- and 

 mid-legs very unequal, the larger much curved and with a compara- 

 tively large tooth, hind equal and simple. Wings with the costa, 

 subcostal, and first longitudinal veins'black-scaled, but not as 

 densely as in the type; stem of the first fork-cell about three- 



