130 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



SOME NEW CULICID^ FROM WESTERN AUSTRALIA, 

 SOUTH QUEENSLAND, AND TASMANIA. 



By E. H. Strickland (Dip. S.E.A.C.). 



New Species found in a small Collection of Mosquitoes 



FROM Western Australia. 



This collection, which was made by Dr. Cleland, of the 

 Department of Public Health, Perth, Western Australia, was 

 sent to Mr. F. V. Theobald. 



All the twenty-two specimens sent were found to belong to 

 the sub-family Culicinae, and at least seven of them represented 

 species up to the present undescribed. 



Some of the specimens arrived in too damaged a condition 

 to be identified. 



The new species, comprising three Culicelsa and one Grab- 

 hamia, are described in detail below, together with notes on their 

 habits, &c., made by Dr. Cleland. 



Type specimens of the species have been forwarded to the 

 British Museum. 



Culicelsa ivestralis, n. sp. 



Thorax clothed with golden brown scales with three longitudinal 

 lines of white scales. There is also a patch of white scales before 

 the similarly clothed scutellum. Abdomen black with snowy white 

 basal bands. 



Legs with black tarsi which have conspicuous snowy white basal 

 bands. Femora and tibiae pale scaled ventrally. 



? . Head black with large creamy narrow curved scales round 

 the median line and back of head, and smaller narrow curved scales 

 at the sides and round the eyes. The lateral flat scales are for the 

 greater part white, but there is a deep purple band at the sides of 

 the head. The upright forked scales are black. Eyes, silvery. 

 Antennae with basal segment dark and bearing a few white flat 

 scales and black hairs. Palpi with black and white mottled scales, 

 which are mostly white at the apex. Proboscis not mottled. 



Thorax brown with three narrow longitudinal black lines, clothed 

 on the apical two-thirds with golden brown narrow curved scales, 

 which become larger and whiter on the basal third. There are 

 also three indistinct lines of white scales stretching along the black 

 lines of the thorax from the white patch, the median of which 

 almost reaches the head, whereas the lateral lines terminate a little 

 beyond the centre of the thorax in two more or less distinct white 

 spots. Scutellum clothed with white narrow curved scales. Prothoracic 

 lobes with small white narrow curved scales and l)lack bristles. 

 Pleurae with white flat scales. Abdomen black with well-defined 

 white basal bands on alP segments. A slight apical banding also is 

 present on the two apical segments. Ventral surface with white 

 scales except for a small dark central spot on each segment. 



Legs with very distinct white basal bands, femora with a slight 



