178 AUSTRALIAN CULICID.^, U., 



its length from the anterior cross- vein. Halteres with pale 

 stems, and black knobs. 



Length, 4-5 mm. 



IJab. — Innisfail, Queensland (F. H. Taylor). 



Apparently closely related to S. ornata mihi, but may be dis- 

 tinguished from it by the wing-characters, abdominal markings, 

 and the spots on the femora. 



PsKUDOSKUSEA BASALis Taylor. 



Ann. Report Commissioner Public Health, Queensland, p.27 

 (191:;). 



Hab. — Darwin, Melville Island, Northern Territory (F. H. 

 Hill). 



Macleaya tremula Theobald. 

 The ^Entomologist, Vol. xxxvi , p. 155 (1903). 

 i^a6.— Darwin, Point Charles, Northern Territory (G. F. Hill); 

 Cairns, Queensland (F. H. Taylor). 



Neomacleaya australis, n.sp. (PI. xxviii., fig.3). 



Head clothed with brown scales. Abdomen black, unhanded. 

 Legs brown. Thorax dark brown. 



9. Head clothed with light brown. Hat, and black upright- 

 forked scales, with a median line of pale brown narrow-curved 

 ones; palpi black-scaled; antennae dark brown, basal lobes brown; 

 proboscis black. 



Thorax dark chestnut-brown, clothed with bronzy-brown, 

 narrow-curved scales ; scutellura brown, clothed with bronzy- 

 brown, narrow-curved scales. 



Abdomen black-scaled, with lateral basal spots to all the seg- 

 ments; venter pale-scaled. 



Legs brown, femora pale beneath; ungues equal and simple. 



Wings with the costa spinose, veins clothed with black scales, first 



t'ork-eell longer, and about the same width as, the second, base of 



tlie former nearer the base of the wing; stem of the first fork-cell 



about oiie-tliird the length of its cell; stem of the second about two- 



