Mr. F. H. Taylor on the Culicidae of Australia. 689 
separated by the different clothing of the posterior portion 
of the thorax and scutellum and the much less prominent 
leg banding. 
Culicada annulata, n. sp. 
(Pl. XLI, fig. 5.) 
Head black. Thorax clothed with brown narrow-curved scales. 
Legs black, banded. 
6: Head black, clothed with pale whitish narrow-curved and black 
upright forked scales, with white flat lateral ones; eyes deep black ; 
antennae pale, nodes black, basal lobes black, penultimate and 
apical segments dark brown, plumes brown; proboscis black with a 
narrow creamy white band towards the apex of the middle third 
with a few ventral brown hairs before the base of the band; palpi 
black scaled, longer than the proboscis, first segment with a creamy 
band on its basal third, second and third segments with basal creamy 
banding, the latter creamy at the apex, the apical third of the first 
segment and remaining segments with black ventral hairs. 
Thorax black, clothed with brown narrow-curved scales, with 
pale reflections, with a few white narrow-curved ones in front of the 
scutellum ; prothoracic lobes prominent, clothed with brown narrow- 
curved scales, border bristles dark brown; metanotum black; 
pleurae dark brown paler towards the coxae, and clothed with white 
flat scales. 
Abdomen clothed with black scales with broad white basal band- 
ing, first segment dark brown clothed with pale hairs, seventh and 
eighth segments with a small white apical patch of scales; posterior 
border bristles golden yellow, lateral ones brown, long; genitals 
black clothed with black hairs; venter white scaled, most of the 
segments with dark apical bands. 
Legs black; femora white scaled beneath; tibiae with narrow 
faint apical and basal banding; hind legs with a pale knee spot; 
tarsals one to three with narrow pale basal banding; ungues of fore 
and mid legs very unequal, the larger with a single tooth, hind 
ungues equal and simple. 
Wings with the costa black, veins clothed with brown scales, 
fringe brown; first fork-cell longer and narrower than the second, 
base of the latter nearer the base of the wing than that of the former ; 
stem of the first fork-cell about four-fifths the length of the cell, 
stem of the second about five-sevenths the length of its cell; anterior 
basal cross-vein longer than the anterior cross-vein and about one 
and a half times its own length distant from it. Halteres pale. 
Length 5°5 mm. 
