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ones on the sides; antennae black; proboscis black; clypeus black; 

 palpi black-scaled, with a few pale ones at the apex. 



Thorax dark brown, with brown and a few pale narrow-curved 

 scales; scutellum clothed with pale narrow-curved scales; meta- 

 notum brown; pleurae brown, clothed with patches of flat, white 

 scales. 



Abdomen black-scaled, with basal creamy banding to the seg- 

 ments; venter clothed with yellowish scales, with apparently 

 darker median spots. 



Legs deep brown, unhanded; femora pale beneath; ungues of 

 fore and mid legs equal, and uniserrate, hind equal and simple. 



Wings clothed with brown scales; 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 one-third 

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

 length of its cell; posterior cross- vein longer, and about its own 

 length distant from the mid cross-vein. Halteres deep yellow. 

 Length, 5*5 mm. 



Hab. — Murrumbidgee District, N.S.W. 



CULEX MACLEAYI Skuse. 



Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. Wales, (2), iii., p. 1746, 1888; Theobald, 

 Mon. Culicid., ii., p.162, 1901. 



This is an abraded C. fatiyans Wied. The thorax of the speci- 

 mens is distinctly abraded. Large numbers of specimens have 

 been examined, and, occasionally, forms have been found to cor- 

 respond to Skuse's description, but, in each case, the thorax has 

 been somewhat denuded. The name C. macleayi must, therefore, 

 sink as a synonym of C.fatigans WiecL. 



Culex sp., Skuse. 



Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. Wales, (2), iii., p.1748, 1888; Theobald, 

 Mon. Culicid., ii., p. 162, 1901; Culex fatigans Wied., var. Skusi 

 Giles, Handbook Gnats, 2nd Ed., p.441, 1902. 



Skuse thought that this was probably a variety of C. ciliaris 

 Linn. An examination of his specimens, contained in the 

 Macleay Museum, has proved, beyond doubt, that they are 



