758 REVISION OF CULICIDjE in the macleay museum, 



Culex procax Skuse. 



Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. Wales, (2), iii., p.1742, 1888; Theobald, 

 Mon. Culicid., L, p. 4 15, 1901. 



£. Head brown, clothed with white, narrow-curved scales, and 

 upright, forked ones, with flat, white ones on the sides; proboscis 

 dark brown, pale at the base; palpi brown; antennae brown, ver- 

 ticillate hairs deep brown, pubescence pale. 



Thorax brown, with a median, dark stripe running the full 

 length of the thorax, clothed with pale yellowish-brown and dark, 

 narrow-curved scales; scutellum brown, clothed with pale scales; 

 prothoracic lobes brown, clothed with brownish, narrow-curved 

 scales and hairs; pleurae brown, with patches of white, flat scales. 



Abdomen deep brown, clothed with dark brown scales, seg- 

 ments with white basal banding, with traces of white, lateral 

 spots, border-bristles yellow; venter brown, apparently clothed 

 with white scales. 



Wings with the costa black, vein-scales brown, 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 

 two-thirds the length of its cell, stem of the second about as long 

 as the cell; posterior cross- vein shorter than, and about its own 

 length distant from the mid cross-vein. Halteres creamy-white. 



Legs [in the type, the fore and mid are wanting], brown-scaled; 

 femora pale beneath, knee-spots white; first three tarsals of fore 

 and midlegs with white basal banding, fourth and fifth unhanded, 

 all the tarsi of the hind-legs with white, basal banding; ungues 

 equal and simple. Length, 4 mm. 



Hab. - Gosford (type), Clifton, Illawarra District, KS.W. 



Obs. — The type is in very poor condition. The head and abdo- 

 men are almost denuded, and the fore and mid legs are wanting. 



Culex sagax Skuse. 



Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. Wales, (2), iii., p.1744, 1888; Theobald, 

 Mon. Culicid., ii., p.87, 1901; iii., p.205, 1903. 



9. Head brown, clothed with narrow-curved, pale golden scales, 

 and yellowish and black, upright, forked ones, with white, flat 



