Mr. F. H. Taylor on the Culicidae of Australia. 695 
Leucomyia annulata, n. sp. 
(Pl. XLII, figs. 12 and 13.) 
Head clothed with creamy and black scales. Thorax clothed with 
white and brown narrow-curved scales. Legs black, tarsi basally 
banded. Abdomen with basal white banding. 
9. Head black, clothed with creamy white narrow-curved and 
numerous creamy upright forked scales with a patch of black 
upright forked ones above the creamy flat lateral ones; clypeus 
black; palpi black scaled with a small spot of white scales on the 
base of the fourth segment and with the apex white scaled; pro- 
boscis black scaled with a fairly broad white band; antennae dark 
brown, basal lobes creamy on their outer surface and black on their 
inner, the latter clothed with white flat scales, verticillate hairs 
black, pubescence pale; eyes purple black and silvery, border 
bristles black except in the centre where they are yellow. 
Thorax dark brown, clothed with creamy narrow-curved scales 
with a brownish tinge in some lights on the anterior two-thirds, 
posterior third clothed with pale narrow-curved scales, the tuft 
of elongate flat scales white; scutellum pale brown with a basal 
median dark brown patch, clothed with white narrow-curved 
scales, posterior border bristles dark brown; metanotum dark 
brown; pleurae brown clothed with patches of pale creamy scales 
with scattered pale and black bristles. 
Abdomen pale, clothed with black scales and basal white banding 
on segments two to eight, segments seven and eight with white 
apical banding also and white lateral basal spots, first segment 
clothed with white scales and numerous pale hairs, posterior border 
bristles pale, lateral ones brown, numerous; venter dark brown 
scaled with basal and apical white banding. 
Legs black scaled; femora, tibiae and first tarsals mottled with 
white scales, the former with the basal two-thirds white beneath, 
fore femora with a subapical spot of white scales above, knees white, 
hind tibiae with white apical banding, first tarsals with white basal 
and apical banding, indistinct in the fore and mid legs, second to 
fourth tarsals with white basal banding, all tarsi of hind legs with 
white basal banding; ungues equal and simple. 
Wings brown scaled; costa dark brown scaled; fringe dusky; 
first fork-cell longer and narrower than the second, their bases 
about level, stem of the former slightly less than half the length 
of the cell, stem of the latter about two-thirds the length of its cell ; 
anterior basal cross-vein shorter than the anterior cross-vein and 
about two and a half times its own length distant from the 
