756 REVISION OF CULICIDjE in the macleay museum, 



Abdomen clothed with dusky-brown scales, and white basal 

 banding on segments 2 to 7, first segment clothed with brown 

 scales, and long, pale brown hairs, eighth segment with a median 

 patch of white scales; venter white-scaled, with narrow, brown, 

 apical banding. Legs as in £; ungues wanting. Length, £ 5*5 

 mm.; $ 5 mm. 



Hab. — Blue Mountains (type), and Wheeney Creek, N.S.W. 



06s. — A very distinct and handsome species. The male, though 

 undescribed by Skuse, undoubtedly belongs to this species. 



CULICELSA VIGILAX (Skuse). 



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

 p. 1731, 1888; Culex marinus Theobald, Mon. Culicid., i., pp.395, 

 396, 1901. 



This species has been redescribed by Theobald, whose descrip- 

 tion agrees with the type in all details. The extent of the pale 

 creamy scales, on the proboscis, is very variable. I have seen 

 specimens in which the proboscis is almost entirely clothed with 

 them, while, in others, they are all but absent. 



CULICELSA ANNULIROSTRIS (Skuse). 



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

 iii., p.1737, 1888; Theobald, Mon. Culicid., i., pp.365, 367, 1901; 

 iii., p.162, 1903. 



This species has been redescribed by Theobald, rendering 

 further details unnecessary. 



Culex occidentalis Skuse. 



Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. Wales, (2), iii., 1729, 1888 ; Theobald, 

 Mon. Culicid, i., p.419, 1901; iii., p.179, 1903. 



£. Head dark brown, clothed with creamy-white, narrow- 

 curved, and light brown, upright, forked scales in the centre, and 

 reddish-brown, narrow-curved ones bordering the eyes, sides with 

 alternate patches of white and brown, flat scales; border-bristles 

 brown, with a few paler ones overhanging the eyes from the 

 centre; eyes black and silvery; clypeus brown; palpi black-scaled, 



