CULICES WITH BASALLY BANDED FEET 411 



Head brown, with median and lateral patches of pale curved scales 

 and black forked scales ; palpi of ? , black, with one white rmg, and also 

 the apex pale ; those of 3' > with four white rings. Pleurae dark, with 

 patches of white scales. Legs with minute knee-spots, dark except at 

 the base, and on above, speckled bandings. Halteres yellow with fuscous 

 knobs. Length.— 5 to 5*5 mm. 



Habitat. — Eastern Australia. 



34. CULEX OCCIDENTALIS, Skuse (" S. A. C." p. 1729). 

 Plate xvi, fig. 15, Tarsal claws of $ ; 15a, Abdominal adornment. 



Tarsi dark, with all but the last hind, and the upper three 

 joints of the fore and mid legs with basal yellow bands, broad on 

 the hind and indistinct on the fore legs. Thorax reddish-brown, 

 with hair-like golden scales. Abdomen sooty, with narrow 

 yellowish patches and lateral spots at the bases of the segments. 

 Tarsal claws of fore and mid legs thick, equal, each with an 

 accessory tooth. 



Head brown, yellowish round the orbits, and m the middle ; redder 

 outside this, but with the flat-scaled side patches creamy ; palpi black, 

 with the apex white ; proboscis black. Pleurae testaceous, with creamy- 

 white patches. Legs with the femora chestnut coloured, darker below, 

 with small yellow knee-spots. Halteres yellow, with one side of the 

 knob darker. Venter covered with mingled creamy-white and dark 

 scales. Length.. — 5-6 mm. 



Habitat. — Victoria ; and King George's Sound, Western Australia. 



35. CULEX FLAYIFRONS, Skuse (" S. A, C." p. 1735). 



Closely resembles C. occidentalis, differing only in there being 

 some yellow scales intermixed with the dark ones of the wings, 

 and that the first hind tarsal joints are rather longer in propor- 

 tion to the tibiae. Very doubtfully distinct. 



Habitat. — Blue Mountams, N.S.W. and Brisbane, Australia. 



36. CULEX IMPRIMIENS, Walker 



(Proc. Linn. Soc. v, p. 144). 



Tarsi dark brown, with broad pale basal bands on the hind 

 legs and less prominent markings on the upper joints of the 

 other legs. Thorax unadorned, dark brown, with pale golden 

 linear curved scales. Abdomen sooty, with traces of pale bands 

 at the bases of the second and third segments, and also basal 

 lateral spots. Fore tarsal claws of ? , equal, with an accessory 

 tooth. 



