BY FRANK H. TAYLOR. 749 



densest above the wing-roots; scutellum brown, with a few narrow- 

 curved, white scales; metanotum dark brown; pleurae dark brown. 



Abdomen dark brown, clothed with golden-yellow hairs. 



Wings with the costa, subcostal, and first longitudinal veins 

 dark brown-scaled, remaining veins brown-scaled; there is a dark 

 spot at the base of the third longitudinal vein, and at the bases 

 of the branches of the fifth longitudinal vein, sixth long vein 

 white-scaled, with the apical third brown-scaled; first fork-cell 

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

 the base of the wing than that of the latter; stem of the first 

 fork-cell about as long as its cell, stem of the second longer than 

 the cell; fringe at the apex of wing white, remainder brown ; 

 halteres brown. 



Legs : coxae and trochanters brown; femora brown, fore femora 

 slightly club-shaped at the base, pale at the apex; tibiae dark 

 brown; tarsi dusky. Length, 6 5 mm. 



Hah.— Berowra, N.S.W. 



Nyssokhynchus annulipes Walker. 



Walker, Ins. Saund., i., p. 4 33, 1850; Anopheles musivus Skuse, 

 Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. Wales, (2), iii., p. 1754, 1888; A. mastersi 

 Skuse, ibid., p.1757; Theobald, Mon. Culicid., i., pp.164, 165, 1901. 



This species was redescribed by Theobald, in his Monograph, 

 rendering it unnecessary for me to do so. 



A critical examination of the type of A. mastersi, has proved, 

 beyond doubt, that it is the same as Skuse's A. musivus, in all 

 essentials. At most, it can be regarded only as a variety of N. 

 annulipes, which is somewhat given to variation It is possible 

 to breed the two forms from the same batch of larvae. 



TOXORHYNCHITES SPECIOSA (Skuse). 



Megarrhina speciosa Skuse, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. Wales, (2), 

 iii., p.1722, 1888; Theobald, Mon. Culicid, i., p.228, 1901; Ban- 

 croft, Ann. Queensland Mus., No.8, p. 16, 1908; Taylor, Ann. 

 Kept. Aust. Inst. Trop. Med., p.51 (1911), 1913. 



This species has been fully described in the above publications. 

 The type agrees, in all details, with that published by me. 



