752 REVISION OF CULICID^E in the maclkay museum, 



(J. Head dark brown, clothed with creamy-yellow, narrow- 

 curved, and upright forked scales, with flat, creamy yellow ones 

 on the sides; palpi four-jointed, brown, slightly longer than the 

 proboscis, clothed with mixed brown and creamy scales, second 

 segment the longest, with its apex and the last two segments 

 densely clothed with yellowish-brown hairs; antennas light brown, 

 nodes dark brown, plumes light brown, last two segments long, 

 densely covered with short pile; proboscis long, slender, brown; 

 eyes black and silvery. 



Thorax brown, clothed with golden-yellow, narrow-curved 

 scales ; prothoracic lobes prominent, brown, clothed with flat 

 scales and golden hairs; prealar bristles yellow; scutellum brown, 

 clothed with narrow-curved, light golden-yellow scales, posterior 

 border-bristles yellow; pleurae brown, clothed with patches of 

 white, flat scales, and golden bristles. 



Abdomen brown [denuded]. 



Legs brown; coxae and trochanters dark brown; femora pale 

 beneath; tibiae and tarsi with white basal banding; ungues of 

 forelegs very unequal, [mid wanting], hind equal. 



Wings with the costa dark brown, vein-scales paler, with a few 

 scattered, yellow scales; first fork-cell longer and narrower than 

 the second, the base of the latter nearer the base of the wing 

 than that of the former; stem of the first fork-cell nearly the 

 length of its cell ; stem of the second longer than its cell ; 

 posterior cross-vein shorter than, and scarcely its own length 

 distant from, the mid cross-vein; fringe pale. Halteres with the 

 stems pale brown, knobs dark brown. Length, 6 mm. 



Q. Very similar to £. Abdomen clothed with dark brown 

 scales, with creamy basal banding, penultimate segment clothed 

 with creamy scales. Wings with the stem of the first fork-cell 

 about two-thirds the length of its cell, stem of the second not 

 quite the length of the cell. Legs similar to <J; ungues wanting. 

 Length, 5 mm. 



Hab. — Blue Mountains, N.S.W.; Brisbane, Queensland. 



Obs. — The species described by Theobald as Grabhamia flavi- 

 frons Skuse, is quite distinct from the true C. Jiavifrons Skuse, 



