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fourths the length of the cell, stem of the second fork-cell nearly 

 as long as the cell. Length, 3 mm. 

 //«6.— Darwin, Northern Territory(G. F. Hill; 21/12/13). 



Macleaya tremula Theobald. 

 (PI. XXXV., fig.9.) 

 Entomologist, xxxvi., p. 155(1903). 



Hah. — Eidsvokl, Queensland (Dr. Bancroft), Stannary Hills 

 (Queensland Museum). 



CULICADA FERGUSONI, n.Sp. 



Head clothed with golden scales. Thorax golden. Legs un- 

 handed. Abdomen with white, incomplete, apical banding. 



(J. Head black, clothed with golden, narrow-curved and upright- 

 forked scales, and small, pale, flat, lateral ones, with golden bristles 

 overhanging the eyes from the centre; eyes black; antennae pale, 

 nodes dark, plumes dusky; palpi black-scaled, longer than the 

 proboscis, penultimate and apical segments pale at their bases, 

 clothed with black hairs; proboscis black. 



Thorax pale brown, clothed with golden scales; prothoracic lobes 

 prominent; scutellum clothed with narrow-curved, golden scales; 

 pleurae yellowish-brown clothed with broad, white, flat scales ; meta- 

 notum brown. 



Abdomen black-sealed; segments with broad, white, apical, 

 lateral spots, which give them the appearance of being banded, 

 penultimate segment with a narrow, apical, white band, apical seg- 

 ment almost entirely clothed with white scales; venter clothed with 

 pale scales. 



Legs black, knee-spot pale in the fore- and mid-legs, light ochra- 

 ceous in the hind, tibio-tarsal spot ochraceous, femora pale be- 

 neath; ungues of fore- and mid-legs unequal, the larger with a 

 single tooth, hind equal and simple. 



Wings with the costa black, veins clothed with dusky-brown 

 scales ; first fork-cell longer and narrower than the second, stem of 

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

 about two-thirds the length of the cell; anterior basal cross-vein 

 longer than the anterior cross-vein, and about once and one-half 



