690 Mr. F. H. Taylor on the Culicidae of Australia. 
Q. Head similar to g; palpi black scaled, white scaled at the 
apex ; antennae black, verticillate hairs black. Legs with the ungue 
equal and simple. Wings with the anterior basal cross-vein longer 
than the anterior cross-vein and twice its own length distant from it. 
Length 6 mm. 
Habitat. QUEENSLAND, Townsville (14/4/13 and 6/5/13) 
(Ff. H. Taylor). 
Observations. Described from a single g and two 2 
specimens. It is close to C. squamosa but is easily separated 
from it. 
Culicada clelandi, n. sp. 
(Pl. Xl sive, 65811, fig...) 
Head black, clothed with creamy and brown scales. Thorax 
clothed with golden narrow-curved scales. Abdomen clothed with 
violet black scales and with basal banding. Legs unbanded. 
9. Head black, clothed with creamy yellow narrow-curved and 
brown upright forked scales with lateral patches of creamy flat ones ; 
antennae black, basal lobes pale brown, clothed with brown scales, 
second segment pale, verticillate hairs black, pubescence pale; 
palpi pale, black scaled; proboscis black scaled; clypeus dark 
brown; eyes black and silvery. 
Thorax bright chestnut brown, with three black lines terminating 
opposite the wing roots, clothed with golden narrow-curved scales, 
lateral border bristles black; scutellum pale brown, clothed with 
narrow-curved golden scales, posterior border bristles brown; pro- 
thoracic lobes brown, clothed with brown and creamy yellow narrow- 
curved scales and brown bristles; metanotum brown; pleurae 
dark chestnut brown, clothed with patches of creamy yellow flat 
and narrow-curved scales and scattered yellow bristles. 
Abdomen clothed with violet black scales, first segment with pale 
scales and yellowish bristles, segments two to six with creamy white 
basal banding, seventh mostly with creamy white scales, second to 
seventh segments with creamy white lateral patches, posterior 
border bristles pale; venter white scaled. 
Legs black scaled, femora white scaled beneath on basal two- 
thirds, femoro-tibial joint pale scaled, tarsi unbanded; ungues of 
fore and mid legs equal, uniserrate, hind equal and simple. 
Wings with the costa black scaled, veins clothed with dark brown 
scales; first fork-cell longer and narrower than the second, their 
bases almost level; stem of the first fork-cell less than half the 
length of its cell, stem of the second about two-thirds the length 
of the cell, anterior basal cross-vein slightly more than its own 
