748 REVISION OF CUL1CIDM IN THE MACLEAY MUSEUM, 



Legs brown, clothed with brown scales, changing to dusky- 

 brown on the tarsi. 



Wings with the costa black; veins clothed with light brown 

 scales; fringe brown; first fork-cell longer and narrower than the 

 second fork-cell, base of the former nearer the base of the wing 

 than that of the latter; the stem of the first fork-cell about the 

 length of its cell, stem of the second longer than the cell; super- 

 numerary and posterior cross-veins parallel, the latter scarcely 

 nearer the apex of the wing. 



Abdomen dark brown, sparsely covered with golden hairs ; 

 venter brown. 



(J. Very similar to female; antennae yellowish-brown, shorter 

 than proboscis, plumes brown, and very dense ; palpi brown, 

 shorter than proboscis, last segment spatulate, and clothed with 

 short brown hairs; proboscis brown and slender; wings as in £; 

 mid cross- vein slightly nearer the apex of the wing than the 

 posterior cross- vein. Length, 4-5 to 5 mm. 



Hah. — Blue Mountains, N. S. Wales. 



Obs. — A very distinct species, belonging to the genus Pyreto- 

 phorus, easily distinguished from other Australian Anophelines. 



Pyretophorus atratipes (Skuse). 



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

 p.1755, 1888; Theobald, Mon. Culicid., i., p.208, 1901; v., p.43, 

 1910. 



9. Head dusky brown, clothed with white narrow-curves, and 

 upright forked scales, border-bristles dark brown, with numerous 

 long, white hairs overhanging the eyes from the centre; eyes 

 black; antennae brown, basal lobe dusky, second segment about 

 twice the length of third; palpi dark brown, slightly shorter than 

 the proboscis, apex creamy-yellow; proboscis black, fairly long, 

 slender. 



Thorax brown, with a moderately large, dusky patch on the 

 anterior end, and two small ones towards the lateral edges in 

 front of the wing-roots, and one, median, immediately in front of 

 the scutellum, with three rows of narrow-curved, hair-like scales, 

 and a few scattered dusky hairs, lateral border-bristles white, 



