696 Mr. F. H. Taylor on the Culicidae of Australia. 
mid. Halteres creamy yellow with apical half of stem and knobs 
brown. 
Length 5 mm. 
6. Similar to 9. Palpi with first segment dark brown with a 
narrow creamy apical band, second segment black with basal and 
apical creamy banding, apical segment black with narrow basal 
creamy banding; with the apical half creamy clothed with creamy 
hairs, with black hairs on the apex of the first, the second and basal 
half of the third segments; proboscis black with a white band 
towards the apex of the middle third, with some fairly long black 
hairs beneath at the apex of the middle third; antennae pale, 
nodes dark, penultimate and apical segments brown. « 
Thorax with the anterior third with white narrow-curved scales 
and white elongate flat scales at the roots of the wings, posterior 
portion with dark brown narrow-curved scales; scutellum with 
brown narrow-curved scales. Abdomen with the lateral border 
bristles brown and dense; genitalia brown, clothed with brown 
hairs. Ungues of fore and mid legs unequal, uniserrate; hind 
equal and simple. 
Length 5:°5 mm. 
Habitat. QUEENSLAND, Townsville (Dr. H. Priestley). 
Date of Capture. 28/3/1913 2, 30/4/1913 g. 
Observations. Described from a perfect ¢ and 2. The 
colour of the scales on the anterior portion of the thorax 
in the 2 is somewhat different to that of the 4, but there 
are no other distinctions to separate the two specimens. 
The tuft of hair on the under surface of the 3 proboscis in 
this and the following species can only be looked upon as 
sexual as it is not present in the 9. It is distinguished 
from L. australiensis, Theob., by its banded proboscis, 
the absence of ochraceous scales on the wings, and the 
simple ungues of the 9. 
Leucomyia annulirostris, n. sp. 
Head black, clothed with pale creamy white scales. Thorax 
brown mostly with white scales. Legs brown with basal and apical 
banding. Abdomen with basal and apical creamy white banding. 
§. Head black, clothed with pale creamy white narrow-curved 
scales and mixed creamy white brown upright forked scales with 
lateral patches of creamy white flat ones; eyes purple black and 
silvery; proboscis black scaled with a creamy white band towards 
the base of the apical third; hairy beneath at the base of the band; 
clypeus black; antennae pale, last two segments brown, basal 
