BY PRANK H. TAYLOR. 179 



thirds the length of the cell; anterior basal cross- vein longer than, 

 and about its own length from, the anterior basal; halteres dusky. 



Length, 4-5 mm. 



Hab. -Ualiiax, North Queensland (F. H. Taylor). 



Described from specimens taken at Halifax, It may be distin- 

 guished from N. indica Theobald, by its unhanded abdomen, 

 ungues, and wing-venation. 



Reedomyia pampangknsis Ludlow. 



Canadian Entomologist, Vol. xxxvii., p. 94 (1905). 



A species, sent by Mr. G. F. Hill, differs slightly from the type 

 in having the narrow-curved scales of the head uniformly pale. 

 The thoracic markings are also very indefinite. 



Hab. — Doctor's Gully, Northern Territory. 



CULICADA MILSONI, n.Sp. 



Head clothed with pale, narrows-curved, and mixed pale and 

 black, upright-forked scales, with black and white flat lateral ones. 

 Thorax clothed with pale and dark brow^n narrow-curved scales, 

 with white flat ones immediately in front of the scutellum. Abdo- 

 men with white basal bands. Tarsi with white basal banding. 



(J. Head clothed with pale, narrow-curved, and pale black, up- 

 right-forked scales, with a large patch of brown narrow-curved 

 ones on either side, separated from the eyes by a fringe of white 

 narrow-curved scales, lateral ones flat, a narrow white patch above, 

 then a large black patch; palpi black, shorter than the proboscis, 

 apex of the second joint, and the third and fourth joints with 

 black hairs beneath, second joint with a white, almost basal band, 

 and another at the apex of the middle third, third and apical joints 

 with white basal bands ; antennae with the nodes, last two segments, 

 and plumes black, basal lobes pale, covered with white, flat scales ; 

 proboscis black. 



Thorax dusky brown, clothed with dark brown, narrow-curved 

 scales, with pale ones in the middle of the anterior half, and white 

 ones on the lateral and anterior margins ; and a patch of white, flat 

 ones immediately in front of the scutellum, the latter brown, the 

 mid-lobe with mixed flat, and narrow-curved, white scales, lateral 



