BY FRANK H. TAYLOR. 181 



Two of the females show white, basal spots, instead of bands, 

 but in other respects are typical. 

 Type $ in Coll. Dr. Ferguson 



CuLiCELSA PALUDis Taylor. 



Rep. Aust. Inst. Trop. Med., 1911, p. 56 (May, 1913). 



^. Paljii black, with two pale bands on the second segment, one 

 at the apex of the basal third, and one opposite the band on the 

 proboscis, the third and apical segments also with basal pale hand- 

 ing, apex of apical segment also pale; antennae with the last two 

 segments brown, plumes dark brown ; wing-venation similar to 9, 

 though it is not so heavily scaled; ungues of fore- and mid-legs 

 unequal and uniserrate; of the hind- small, equal, and simple. 

 Length, 5 mm. 



The following is a description of the female wing, which was 

 omitted from the original description through an error. 



Costa black-scaled, veins clothed with dark brown scales; first 

 fork-cell longer and narrower than the second, base of the latter 

 nearer the base of the wing than that of the former; stems of the 

 fork-cells about two-thirds the length of their cells ; anterior basal 

 cross-vein about twice its own length from the anterior cross-vein. 



Hab.— Darwin, Northern Territory (G. F. Hill). 



CuLEX MOSSMANI, n sp. (PI. xxix., figs.4-5). 



Head clothed with grey, narrow-curved, and black upright- 

 forked scales, and flat, white ones laterally. Thorax with palo 

 narrow-curved scales. Abdomen with basal bands ; tarsi with basal 

 and apical banding. 



(J. Head clothed with grey, narrow-curved, and numerous 

 black, upright-forked scales, and flat, white ones laterally; probos- 

 cis black, with a creamy band on its apical third ; palpi black, first 

 segment with a broad band at the base of the apical third, a basal 

 band on the third and apical segments, the latter also with the 

 apex broadly banded; antennae pale, nodes black, last two seg- 

 ments browm, plumes dusky. 



Thorax dark brown, clothed with pale, narrow-curved scales; 

 scutellum similar to thorax; prothoracic lobes prominent, with 



