Mr. F. H. Taylor on the Culicidae of Australia. 697 
lobes black, nodes black, plumes brown; palpi black scaled, first 
segment with a narrow pale band on its apical third and a narrow 
apical one, second segment with a creamy basal band, apical 
segment with broad creamy yellow apical and narrow basal banding 
and clothed with greyish hairs, the apex of the first and the whole 
of the second segments clothed with black hairs. 
Thorax brown with anterior two-thirds white scaled, posterior 
third with mixed brown and white scales with a few elongated 
outstanding pale flat scales in front of the wing roots; scutellum 
paler than thorax, sparsely clothed with white narrow-curved 
scales, and with brown ones to the mid lobe, posterior border 
bristles brown, twelve to the mid lobe, five to the lateral lobes; 
prothoracic lobes prominent, brown, clothed with pale narrow- 
curved scales and pale hairs; metanotum brown; pleurae dusky 
brown, clothed with patches of white flat scales and pale hairs. 
Abdomen black scaled with white basal banding; first segment 
clothed with black scales and yellowish hairs, segments two to six 
with white basal banding, seventh with basal and apical creamy 
banding, in one specimen the eighth segment has the basal band 
forming a broad triangular patch which is connected to the apical 
band by a narrow stripe of creamy scales, and with a broad lateral 
creamy patch, eighth segment clothed with creamy scales; genitalia 
with the basal lobes brown, clothed with pale hairs posterior and 
lateral border bristles pale yellow; venter clothed with white and 
black scales with numerous pale yellow hairs. 
Legs black scaled; femora, tibiae and first tarsals mottled with 
white scales, knees pale, femora pale beneath, tibiae pale at the 
apex; first and second tarsals with creamy basal and apical band- 
ing, third and fourth with basal banding, fifth pale scaled, first 
three tarsals of hind legs with creamy basal and apical banding, 
fourth and fifth tarsals with creamy basal banding; ungues of 
fore and mid legs very unequal, uniserrate, hind equal and simple. 
Wings with the veins clothed with brown scales; fringe brown; 
first fork-cell longer and narrower than the second, their bases 
level; stem of the first fork-cell less than half the length of its cell, 
stem of the second two-thirds the length of the cell; anterior basal 
cross-vein longer than the anterior cross-vein and twice its own 
length distant from it. Halteres with pale stems and dark knobs. 
Length 6 mm. 
Q. Similar to g. Antennae brown, basal lobes dusky, clothed 
with white scales, second segment with the basal half creamy, 
verticillate hairs black, pubescence pale; nodes pale; palpi black 
scaled with a few black bristles, apex creamy yellow; clypeus 
black. 
