BY FRANK H. TAYLOK. 183 



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

 forked scales, and pale, flat ones at the sides; palpi black, last two 

 joints densely clothed with black hairs; antennae densely clothed 

 with black plumes; proboscis black; eyes blue-black. 



Thorax brown, clothed with brown, naiTow-curved scales; scu- 

 tellum paler, clothed with pale scales, border-bristles pale, and 

 long; pleurae brown, clothed with small, white, flat scales; metano- 

 tum brown, prothoracic lobes prominent, clothed with dark, nar- 

 row-curved scales. 



Abdomen brown clothed with brown scales, and with median, 

 white, basal spots to the segments, which extend to the sides in 

 some specimens; venter brown. 



Legs brown, femora and tibiae mottled with white scales, first 

 and second tarsals of fore- and mid-legs with narrow, basal band- 

 ing; fli'st three tarsals of hind-legs with narrow basal banding, 

 ungues of fore-legs unequal, the larger with two teeth and the 

 smaller with one, of mid-legs unequal, each with a single tooth, 

 hind- equal and simple. 



Wings: costa black, vein-scales dark brown, first fork-cell 

 longer and narrower than the second, base of the latter nearer the 

 base of the wing, their stems nearly the length of their cells; 

 anterior basal cross-vein longer than, and about its own length 

 from, the anterior cross-vein. Halteres pale. 



^. Similar to ^. Palpi black ; antennae brown. Thorax 

 clothed with bronzy-brown, narrow-curved scales. 



Wings similar to (J, but more densely clothed. Ungues of fore- 

 and mid-legs equal and uniserrate, of hind-legs equal and simple. 



Length, ^ 3-5-4; 9 4-4-5 mm. 



Hab. — Normaiitou, Queensland (F. H. Taylor). 



Described from a series of each sex. which were bred from larvae. 



Chrysoconops aurites Theobald. 

 Mon. Culicid., ii., p. 209 (1903). 

 Hab. — Banker's Jungle, Northern Territory (G. F. Hill). 



