Mr. F. H. Taylor on the Culicidae of Australia. 693 
Abdomen clothed with flat scales, first segment clothed with 
white scales and black ones in the centre and yellowish hairs, second 
segment basally banded white, third with a distinct white basal 
banding, fourth and fifth segments unbanded, sixth to eighth 
segments mottled with pale scales, posterior and lateral border 
bristles pale, second to fifth segments with small white lateral 
spots; venter mottled with dark brown and pale scales. 
Legs black, femora mottled with white scales above, beneath 
with the basal half white scaled, apical half mottled with white 
scales, knee spot ochraceous, first three tarsals of fore and mid legs 
with white basal banding, fourth and fifth black, first to fourth 
tarsi of hind legs with broad white basal banding, fifth black; 
ungues all equal and uniserrate. 
Wings clothed with dark brown scales; fringe brown; first 
fork-cell longer and narrower than the second; base of the former 
nearer the base of the wing than that of the latter; stem of the first 
fork-cell about one-third the length of its cell, stem’ of the second 
scarcely half the length of the cell; anterior basal cross-vein about 
the same length as the anterior cross-vein and nearly twice its own 
length distant from it. Halteres with pale stems and dark knobs. 
Length 7 mm. 
Habitat. Vicrorta, Melbourne; Tasmanta, Underwood. 
Date of Capture. 23/10/1912. 
Observations. Described from a single specimen taken 
by Dr. Cumpston. We have also received it from Mr. 
F. M. Littler from Tasmania. It is somewhat closely 
related to C. demansis, Strickland. 
Culicada annulipes, n. sp. 
(Pl. XLII, figs. 10 and 11.) 
Head black. Thorax clothed with golden yellow narrow-curved 
scales. Legs black with creamy white basal banding. Abdomen 
with basal banding. 
Q. Head black, clothed with creamy yellow narrow-curved 
scales and mixed creamy and black upright forked ones, with a 
small patch on either side of flat black ones surrounded above and 
below and at the back with creamy white flat scales, eyes purple 
black and silvery; clypeus black; palpi clothed with mixed black 
and creamy white scales; antennae black, basal lobes pale, clothed 
with small white flat scales, second segment with the basal two- 
thirds creamy, clothed with black flat scales, verticillate hairs black, 
