692 Mr. F. H. Taylor on the Culicidae of Australia. 
basally banded in the fore and mid legs, in the hind legs the fourth 
and fifth with basal banding. Ungues equal and simple. 
Wings with the costa black scaled, remaining veins clothed with 
dark brown scales; first fork-cell longer and narrower than the 
second, their bases about level; stem of the first fork-cell about 
half the length of its cell, stem of the second not quite the length 
of its cell; anterior basal cross-vein twice its length distant from 
the anterior cross-vein; the anterior and supernumerary cross- 
veins parallel; fringe dusky. Halteres with pale stems and dusky 
knobs. 
Length 7°5 mm. 
Habitat. QUEENSLAND, Townsville. 
Date of Capture. 12/4/1913 (F. H. T.). 
Observations. Described from two specimens; easily dis- 
tinguished from other species by the elongate outstanding 
flat scales on the thorax. 
Culicada cumpstoni, n. sp. 
(Pl. XLII, fig. 9.) 
Head clothed with pale narrow-curved and upright forked scales 
and pale flat lateral ones. Thorax chestnut brown. Abdomen 
black with white lateral spots. Legs black with broad white basal 
bands. 
9. Head black, clothed with pale creamy narrow-curved scales 
and creamy and black upright forked ones with pale creamy white 
flat lateral ones with a border of small creamy narrow-curved scales 
bordering the eyes, the latter purplish black and silvery with a tuft 
of yellow hairs overhanging them from the centre; clypeus black; 
proboscis black; palpi black scaled, white scaled at the base, second 
segment with an apical band, apex white scaled; antennae black, 
verticillate hairs black, pubescence pale, basal lobes black on their 
inner edges and clothed with small creamy white flat scales, second 
segment with the basal two-thirds densely clothed with creamy 
white flat scales. 
Thorax chestnut brown, clothed with creamy narrow-curved 
scales mixed with a few narrow-curved black ones, prealar bristles 
creamy; prothoracic lobes brown, prominent, clothed with creamy 
spindle-shaped and flat scales with brown hairs; scutellum brown, 
clothed with creamy narrow-curved scales, posterior border bristles 
brown with a few yellowish ones on the mid lobe behind the brown 
ones; metanotum pale brown; pleurae brown clothed with patches 
of creamy white small and large flat scales. 
