466 AUSTRALIAN CULICID^, i., 



9. Similar to ^. Antennae dark brown, basal lobes paler; palpi 

 black-scaled, bristles brown; fore- and mid-ungues equal, uni- 

 serrate, hind equal and simple. 



Wings with the first fork-cell longer and narrower than the 

 second, stem of the former about two-thirds the length of the 

 cell; anterior basal cross-vein a little more than twice its own 

 length from the anterior cross- vein. 



Length, 3 mm. 



Hah. .Eidsvold, Queensland (Dr. T. L. Bancroft). 



Close to *S'. diurna Theob., but can be distinguished from it by 

 the head-ornamentation, the wing- venation, and the fore- and 

 mid-ungues. I have much pleasure in dedicating this species to 

 its discoverer. Dr. Bancroft writes that it is a sylvan species, 

 and bites man. 



Menolepsis(I) tasmaniensis, n.sp. 

 (Pl.xxxvii., fig. 20.) 



Head clothed with creamy-yellow and dark brown scales. Legs 

 brown. Abdomen black-scaled, unhanded. 



9. Head dark brown, clothed with creamy-yellow, narrow- 

 curved scales, with mixed black and creamy-yellow, upright - 

 forked ones, and a patch of bronzy-brown, narrow-curved ones 

 on either side in front, the lateral, flat scales small and creamy- 

 white, with a small patch of dark ones in their midst ; eyes 

 purplish-black and silvery, border-bristles dark, with some golden- 

 yellow ones overhanging the eyes from the centre; palpi ap- 

 parently three-jointed, pale, clothed with dark scales, and a few 

 scattered pale ones with numerous black bristles; proboscis black; 

 antennae brovrn, second segment pale, basal lobes dark brown, 

 and clothed with small, dark, outstanding, narrow scales. 



'J'horax chestnut-brown, clothed with small, narrow-curved, 

 creamy scales, with a lateral, pre-alar row of white, outstanding, 

 flat ones, and numerous, yellowish bristles at the roots of the 

 wings; scutellum chestnut-brown, clothed with creamy, narrow- 

 curved scales, posterior border-bristles golden; prothoracic lobes 

 chestnut-brown, clothed with creamy, narrow-curved scales ; 

 pleurae brown, clothed with creamy-white, flat scales and yellow 



