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A REVISION OF THE CULICIDjE IN THE MACLEAY 

 MUSEUM, SYDNEY. 



By Frank H. Taylor, F.E.S., Entomologist to the Austra- 

 lian Institute of Tropical Medicine. 



(Plate xxx.) 



The following paper contains a description of Skuse's types in 

 the above Museum, at the Sydney University. 



It is proposed to refer Anopheles stigmaticus and A. atratipes 

 to the genus Pyretophorus; Culexjlavifrons and C. vittiger to 

 Culicada, and to give a new name to Grabhamia flavifrons of 

 Theobald; Culex linealis is placed in the genus Culicelsa. Culex 

 atripes has been transferred to the genus Scutomyia, and shown 

 to be distinct from Slegomyia punctolateralis Theob. 



I wish to express my indebtedness to Professors W. A. Haswell 

 and T. W. E. David, for their kindness in allowing me access to 

 the collection, when recently in Sydney. I have also to thank 

 Mr. Shewan, Acting Curator, for many courtesies. 



Pyretophorus stigmaticus (Skuse). 



Anopheles stigmaticus Skuse, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. Wales, (2), 

 iii., p.1758, 1888; Theobald, Mon. Culicid., i., p.207, 1901. 



9. Head yellowish-brown, clothed with yellowish, upright, 

 forked scales, and brown hairs, with numerous yellowish ones 

 overhanging the eyes from the centre; antennae brown, basal lobe 

 dusky brown, second segment pale at the base; palpi brown, 

 clothed with dusky scales, shorter than the proboscis, which is 

 brown. 



Thorax brown, with three dusky patches, one anterior and two 

 posterior, clothed with scanty, narrow-curved, golden-yellow 

 scales ; scutellum brown ; metanotum dusky-brown ; pleurae 

 blackish; prothoracic lobes prominent. 



