686 Mr. F. H. Taylor on the Culicidae of Australia. 
from the anterior cross-vein; the sub-costal vein terminates a short 
distance in front of the supernumerary cross-vein. Halteres creamy 
yellow. 
Length 9 mm. 
Habitat. QUEENSLAND, Townsville (Dr. H. Priestley). 
Date of Capture. 27/3/1913. 
Observations. Described from a single specimen. It 
is a very handsome mosquito, the iridescent scales being 
very conspicuous. It is isolated from other Australian 
species by its head and thoracic ornamentation; the leg 
banding is also distinctive. We have much pleasure in 
dedicating this handsome species to its discoverer. 
Stegomyia tasmamensis, Strickland. 
(PI. XLI, figs. 1 and 2.) 
Entomologist, xliv, No. 578, p. 249 (1911). 
Additional Localities. Tasmanta, Launceston, Mount 
Arthur (fF. M. Littler). 
Scutomyia notoscripta, Skuse. 
Proc. Linn. Soc., N.S.W., III, 2nd series, p. 1738 (1888). 
Additional Localities. Tasmania, Underwood, Launceston 
(fF. M. Littler). 
Grabhamia flindersi, n. sp. 
Thorax clothed with deep bronzy narrow-curved scales. Abdomen 
clothed with brown scales. Legs black, unbanded. 
9. Head black, clothed with dark brown narrow-curved scales 
with numerous white and black upright forked ones, the sides with 
a small patch of mixed whitish and brown flat ones; eyes black and 
silvery bordered with long blackish bristles; palpi black scaled with 
a few scattered black bristles; proboscis black mottled with black 
and white scales; antennae dark brown, second and third segments 
paler, basal lobe blackish brown, verticillate hairs dark brown, short, 
pile grey ; clypeus black. 
Thorax dark brown, clothed with deep bronzy narrow-curved 
scales, prealar bristles dense, blackish brown; scutellum dark brown, 
clothed with short white narrow-curved scales, mid lobe with six 
black border bristles, lateral lobes with five; metanotum reddish 
brown, prothoracic lobes with mixed brown and white narrow-curved 
scales ; pleurae brown, densely clothed with white flat scales. 
Abdomen brown, clothed with brown scales with narrow apical 
