BY FRANK H. TAYLOR. 757 



with a few, scattered, dark hairs, and a small patch of white 

 scales on the apex of the penultimate segment, apex of the last 

 segment white-scaled; antennae dark brown, pubescence greyish, 

 verticillate hairs brown, basal lobes brown, basal half of second 

 segment creamy-yellow; proboscis dark brown at the base. 



Thorax reddish-brown, clothed with pale creamy, narrow- 

 curved scales, and bronzy brown ones; scutellum brown, clothed 

 with pale, narrow-curved scales ; prothoracic lobes fairly pro- 

 minent, brown, clothed with pale, narrow-curved scales and 

 yellowish hairs; metanotum brown; pleurae brown, clothed with 

 patches of creamy-white, flat scales. 



Abdomen brown, clothed with brown scales, segments with 

 white basal banding; venter white-scaled, with narrow, apical, 

 brown banding. 



Wings with the costa black, veins clothed with dark brown 

 scales; first fork-cell longer and narrower than the second, their 

 bases about level; stem of the first fork-cell about one-half the 

 length of the cell, stem of the second about two-thirds the length 

 of the cell; posterior cross-vein shorter than, and a little more 

 more than its own length distant from it; second incrassation 

 well marked. Halteres creamy, with black knobs. 



Legs clothed with dark brown scales; first three tarsals of the 

 fore and mid legs with white basal banding; [hind legs damaged]; 

 fore and mid ungues equal, stout, each with a small tooth. 

 Length, 5*5 mm. 



Hab. — King George's Sound, W.A. (type unique). 



Obs. — This is a very distinct species, not to be confused with 

 other Australian species. Dr. Cleland kindly presented speci- 

 mens to the Institute collection, which he informed me had been 

 so named, for him, by Mr. F. W. Edwards; and which, on com- 

 parison with the type, proved to be quite distinct, and corres- 

 ponded with Strickland's description of Culicada vandema. The 

 two species are not to be confused, as the latter is much more 

 robust, and has a large, brown spot on the wings, which the 

 former lacks, besides other differences. 



