750 REVISION OP CULICIDJ? IN THE MACLEAY MUSEUM, 



MUCIDUS ALTERNANS Westwood. 



Westwood, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr., iv., p. 681, and Trans. Ent. Soc. 

 Lond , iii , p. 384; Culex hispidiosus Skuse, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. 

 Wales, (2), iii., p. 1726, 1888; Theobald, Mon. Culicid., i., p. 269, 

 1901. 



This species has already been fully described by Theobald, in 

 his Monograph, rendering further description unnecessary. 



SCUTOMYIA ATRIPES (Skuse). 



Culex atripes Skuse, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. Wales, (2), iii., 

 p.1750, 1888; Theobald, Mon. Culicid., ii., pp.58, 256, 1901 ; 

 Theobaldia atripes Neveu-Lemaire (nee Skuse), Arch. Parasitolo- 

 gic, vi., p.615, 1902; Mimeteomyia atripes (Skuse) Cleland, Second 

 Kept Gov. Bureau Microbiology, Sydney, p. 144, 1912. 



£. Head clothed with flat, dusky scales with violet reflections, 

 and a small patch of narrow-curved ones in the mid-region, with 

 a patch of flat, creamy, lateral ones ; border-bristles brown; 

 antennae black, verticillate hairs black, clothed with short whitish 

 pile; palpi black; clypeus black; proboscis black; eyes violet- 

 black. 



Thorax clothed with thin, brown, narrow-curved scales; pro- 

 thoracic lobes prominent, clothed with large, dense, flat, white 

 scales and brown hairs; lateral border-bristles brown, densest 

 above the wing-roots; scutellum brown, mid-lobe clothed with 

 large, dusky, loosely applied, flat scales, lateral lobes with paler 

 ones; pleurae black, densely clothed with white, flat scales. 



Abdomen black, scaled with white, lateral spots on segments 

 6 to 8; venter dark brown, clothed with small, white scales. 



Wings with the costa, subcostal, and first long veins clothed 

 with dusky scales, remaining veins clothed with brown scales, the 

 lateral ones linear, the median small and flat; first fork-cell longer 

 and narrower than the second, its base nearer the base of the 

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

 one-third the length of the cell, that of the second about two- 

 thirds as long as the cell; posterior cross- vein longer than, and 



