182 AUSTRALIAN CULICID^'E^ ii., 



numerous light brown hairs; metanotum brown, pleurae dark 

 brown. 



Abdomen clothed witli chocolate-brown scales, and basal creamy 

 bands, incomplete on segments five to seven; venter apparently 

 similar to dorsum. 



Legs black, femora pale beneath, tibise, first and second tarsals 

 with creamy apical and basal banding, third basally banded; 

 ungues of fore- and mid-legs unequal, each with a single tooth, 

 hind- small, equal and simple. 



Wings with the veins clothed with black scales, with three 

 creamy spots on the costa, the basal one above the base of the 

 anterior branch of the fifth long vein; the apical spot is situated 

 at the apex of the first long vein, the second spot is midway 

 between the other two, and extends to the base of the first fork-cell, 

 the basal and apical spots extend to the first long vein, the anterior 

 branch of the fifth vein is also creamy except the base and apex; 

 first fork-cell longer, and narrower than the second, their stems 

 about two-thirds the length of the cells, base of the seeond nearer 

 tlie base of the wing; anterior basal cross-vein longer than, and 

 about four times its length from the anterior cross-vein; fringe 

 dusky, except at the apex of the posterior branch of the fifth long- 

 vein, where it is pale; halteres pale. 



9. Similar to the $. Palpi black, apex pale; antennae dark 

 brown, basal lobes pale, base of second segment pale; ungues all 

 equal and simple; wings similar but more heavily scaled. 



Length, $ 4; 9 4*5 mm. 



Hob. — Mossman, Northern Queensland. 



This species is closely related to Culex mimeticus. The wing- 

 ornamentation and leg-banding are, however, quite distinct. It 

 was bred from larvae by Drs. Breinl and Priestley. 



Culex normanensis, n.sp. (PI. xxix., fig.6). 

 Head clothed with pale, narrow-curved scales, and pale, fiat ones 

 on the sides. Abdomen with basal spots. Legs black, tarsi with 

 white basal banding. 



