688 Mr. F. H. Taylor on the Culicidae of Australia. 
Culicada nigra, n. sp. 
Head clothed with pale scales, thorax dark brown. Abdomen 
with white basal banding. Legs black, tarsi with white basal 
banding. 
3. Head black, clothed with creamy narrow-curved and light 
brown upright forked scales with white flat lateral ones, border 
bristles black with creamy yellow ones overhanging the eyes from the 
centre; eyes purplish black; clypeus black; proboscis black; palpi 
black with white basal banding on all the segments, apex of the first, 
the second and apical segments clothed beneath with dark brown 
hairs, those on the last two segments pale at the base; antennae 
dark brown, basal lobes black, plumes brown, penultimate and 
apical segments long and brown, verticillate hairs at the base of the 
apical segments long and black. 
Thorax blackish brown, light chestnut brown in front of the 
scutellum, clothed with creamy white narrow-curved scales re- 
mainder with creamy ones, lateral border bristles black; scutellum 
brown, posterior half paler, clothed with creamy white narrow-curved 
scales, border bristles light brown; metanotum chestnut brown, 
prothoracic lobes prominent, dark brown, clothed with white flat 
scales and brown bristles ; pleurae brown, densely clothed with white 
flat scales and a few pale yellowish bristles. 
Abdomen clothed with black scales with white basal banding, 
first segment clothed with white scales and dense pale hairs, eighth 
segment mottled with white scales; genitalia mottled with white 
scales; posterior border bristles pale yellow, lateral ones long, pale 
yellow; venter white scaled. 
Legs black; femora, tibiae and first tarsals pale beneath; knee 
spot pale; tarsals one to four of fore and mid legs with white basal 
banding, all tarsi of hind legs with white basal banding; ungues of 
fore and mid legs unequal, the larger with two teeth, the smaller 
with one, hind equal uniserrate. 
Wings with the costa clothed with black scales, remaining veins 
clothed with dark brown scales; anterior basal cross-vein as long as 
the anterior cross-vein and half its own length distant from it; first 
fork-cell longer and narrower than the second, their bases level, 
stem of the first fork-cell about three-quarters the length of the cell, 
stem of the second as long as the cell; fringe brown. Halteres with 
pale stems and dusky knobs. 
Length 7—7°5 mm. 
Habitat. Tasmanta, Launceston (fF. M. Inttler). 
Observations. Described from two specimens. It comes 
nearest to C. demansis, Strickland, from which it can be 
