694 Mr. F. H. Taylor on the Culicidae of Australia. 
pubescence pale; proboscis creamy yellow with base and apex 
black. 
Thorax brown with two sub-median light reddish brown broad 
stripes on the anterior half, clothed with golden brown narrow- 
curved scales, mixed with a few white ones, there is a large patch 
of white narrow-curved scales in front of the scutellum; the latter 
brown, clothed with white narrow-curved scales, posterior border 
bristles black on the lateral lobes and yellowish brown on the mid 
lobe; prothoracic lobes brown, prominent, clothed with creamy 
narrow-curved scales above and creamy flat ones on the sides with 
a few dark hairs; pleurae brown, densely clothed with white flat 
scales and scattered pale hairs; metanotum reddish brown. 
Abdomen black scaled with incomplete white, triangular, basal 
banding and lateral white patches, first segment clothed with grey 
white scales and pale hairs, the patches on segments five to seven 
extending the length of the segment, sixth segment with an in- 
complete apical band also, seventh clothed with mixed black and 
creamy white scales; posterior border bristles pale; venter densely 
clothed with white scales. 
Legs purplish black with the femora mottled above with white 
and purplish black scales, beneath with basal half white scaled, 
apical half mottled with black and white scales; tibiae blue black 
mottled with white above and below, knee spot ochraceous, promi- 
nent; first tarsals mottled with white scales on their basal two- 
thirds, not so prominent on the hind legs, fore and mid legs with 
the first to fourth tarsals with basal creamy white banding, fifth 
with a basal spot, in the hind legs all the tarsi are basally banded with 
creamy white; ungues equal, uniserrate. 
Wings with the costa violet black scaled, rest of the veins clothed 
with dusky brown scales; fringe dusky; first fork-cell longer and 
narrower than the second; stem of the first fork-cell scarcely half 
the length of its cell, stem of the second fork-cell two-thirds the 
length of the cell, base of the former nearer the base of the wing 
than that of the latter; anterior basal cross-vein slightly longer 
than the anterior cross-vein and about half its own length distant 
from it; sub-costal vein with a dense clothing of black scales at 
its base. 
Length 5-5-6 mm. 
Habitat. Bass Srrarrs, Flinders Island (Dr. J. B. 
Cleland) ; Tasmanta, Launceston (F'. M. Inttler); Victoria, 
Melbourne (Dr. J. H. L. Cumpston). 
Date of Capture. Melbourne, 23/10/1912 : Flinders Island, 
21/11/1912. 
