BY FRANK H. TAYLOR. 755 



Obs.— This is the first time that the male has been met with, 

 when a single specimen was taken, together with several females, 

 amongst grass. Giles states that the female palpi are distinctly 

 five-jointed, whereas they are only four-jointed. He also gives a 

 very brief diagnosis of a male which shows some discrepancies 

 when compared with the above description. He was probably 

 dealing with another species. 



CULICELSA LINEALIS (SkllSe). 



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

 p.1747, 1888; Theobald, Mon. Culicid., ii., p.165, 1901. 



9. Head black, clothed with creamy-white, narrow-curved, and 

 black, upright, forked scales, w T ith flat, creamy- white ones on the 

 sides; eyes violet-black and silver; palpi covered with dense, 

 dark brown scales, and numerous brown bristles, the base with a 

 few pale scales; proboscis dark brown. 



Thorax dark brown, clothed with dark brown, narrow-curved 

 scales, with four rows and the lateral borders of creamy-white 

 ones; scutellum dark brown, clothed with creamy-white, narrow- 

 curved scales; pleurae blackish-brown, clothed with patches of 

 white, flat scales. 



Abdomen [damaged | clothed with black scales, banding not 

 distinguishable; venter pale-scaled. 



Legs dark brown ; femora and tibiae pale beneath ; ungues 

 equal and simple. 



Wings with the veins clothed with brown scales; costa dark 

 brown; first fork-cell longer and narrower than the second, its 

 stem about one-half the length of its cell, stem of the second 

 about two-thirds the length of the cell; base of the second fork- 

 cell nearer the base of the wing than that of the first fork-cell. 



£. Head similar to £; palpi longer than the proboscis, dark 

 brown, penultimate and apical segments brown, clothed with 

 fairly long, brown hairs; antennae pale brown, clothed with brown 

 plumes, last two segments brown, moderately long. 



Thorax similar to 9 ; scutellum pale brown, clothed with 

 narrow-curved, pale, creamy-white scales, mid-lobe with four, 

 pale golden, posterior border-bristles, lateral lobes with three. 



