460 AUSTRALIAN CULICIDJE, 1., 



its own lengtli distant from it; fringe dusky. Halteres with the 

 stems pale, and knobs light brown. 



Length, 5 mm. 



9. Similar to ^. Palpi black-scaled ; antennae dark brown, 

 basal lobes and base of second segment pale. The lateral spots on 

 the abdomen not so prominent as in the $: sixth and seventh 

 •segments with apical banding. Ungues equal and simple. Length, 

 5-5 mm. 



JIah. — Milson Island, Hawkesbury River, N.S.W. 



Described from one male and one female, bred by Dr. Ferguson. 

 Type-male in Coll. Ferguson. 



Cui.ICADA VICTORIENSIS, n.sp. 



(PI. xxxvi., fig. 10.) 



Head clothed with golden, narrow-curved scales, and black, 

 lateral ones. Thorax clothed with narrow-curved, pale golden 

 scales. Abdomen black-scaled, unhanded, with white lateral 

 spots. Tarsi with basal banding. 



9. Head black, clothed with golden, narrow-curved and 

 upright-forked scales, and black, flat, lateral ones, with a fringe 

 of small, narrow-curved, golden ones bordering the eyes, with 

 golden bristles overhanging the latter from the centre; antennae 

 black, verticillate hairs black, basal lobes dark brown, with 

 creamy flat scales on their inner surfaces, basal two-thirds of 

 second segment pale; palpi black-scaled, slender, second segment 

 mottled with white scales, apex white; proboscis black; eyes 

 purplish-black, with silvery spots; clypeus black. 



Thorax dark chestnut-brown, with a narrow, median, longi- 

 tudinal, black line extending from the anterior end to opposite 

 the wing-roots, clothed with narrow-curved, pale golden scales, 

 the posterior end and scutellum paler: scutellum clothed with 

 pale golden, narrow-curved scales, and golden border-bristles; 

 pleurae yellowish-brown, clothed with creamy flat scales; meta- 

 notum light brown. 



Abdomen clothed with black scales, first segment clothed with 

 yellowish scales and hairs, the second to fourth segments with 

 median, basal, creamy-yellow spots, all the segments v/ith white 

 lateral, basal spots; venter mottled with creamy and dark scales. 



