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Kiiddle lobe. Pleurae marked pale brown and grey. Legs dark brown, 

 unhanded, except the bases and venter of the femora, wliich are pallid. 

 Halteres with grey stem and dusky knob. Venter, densely covered with 

 pale ochreous scales; first segment with two patches of black scales 

 and densely hairy. Leiujtlt. — About 4-7 mm. 

 Habitat. — Hong Kong, China, October. 



102. CULEX LINEALIS, Skuse (" S. A. C." p. 1747). 



Tarsi uniformly violet-black. Thorax brown, with 

 four parallel golden scaled lines. Abdominal seg- 

 ments violet-black, with narrow ochreous basal 

 bands. 



2 . — Head brown, ^\ ith golden scales and hairs ; antennae 

 brown, five-sixths the length of the proboscis, which is six 

 times the length of the palpi, both being clothed with violet-black scales. 

 Pleurae brown, with a few, rather indistinct, white patches. Legs violet- 

 black, with a small yellow knee-spot, and the coxae and femora yellow, 

 except the violet-black subapical portion of the latter on its upper side ; 

 hind tibiae one-third longer than their first metatarsals. "Wings with 

 auxiliary junction |[ 3 ; fork of II well outside that of IV, its cell barely 

 the longer but much the narrower ; 4 twice its length inside 8. Halteres 

 ochreous. Venter ochreous, with narrow black apical bands, a character 

 which alone suffices to distinguish it from C.pijrieiis, L., and C. fatir/aiifi. 

 Weld. Length. — About 5 mm. 



Habitat. — Knapsack Gully, Blue IMountains ; Hexham and "Wheeney 

 Creek, N.S.W. October to January. 



Observations. — An obviously distinct species, though nothing answer- 

 ing to it has been received in the British Museum from Australia. 



103. CULEX ZOMBAENSIS, Theobald (Monog. II, p. 143). 



Plate xvii, fig, 13a, Arrangement of cross-veins ; 13b, End of proboscis; 

 13c, Palpus of ? . 



Tarsi uniformly brown. Thorax deep brown, with narrow 

 curved dull golden-brown scales and two narrow, parallel, bare, 

 dark lines, wide apart. Abdomen dark dusky-brown, with narrow 

 basal grey bands. Ungues of the $ , equal and simple. "Wings, 

 with the stem of the first sub-marginal cell not quite as short as 

 in C. pipicns. 



? . — Head brown, with pale, narrow curved, and almost white flat scales 

 at the sides, together witli numerous black upriglit forked ones ; clypeu.s 

 dark brown : palpi black, with a small apical joint (?) ; proboscis deep 

 brown in the middle, black at the base and apex ; antenna- deep broM n. 



