698 Mr. F. H. Taylor on the Culicidae of Australia. 
Thorax with the anterior two-thirds fawn coloured, creamy in 
some lights, elongate outstanding flat scales mixed pale and black, 
lateral border ‘bristles black. Ungues equal and simple. 
Length 7 mm. 
Habitat. QUEENSLAND, Townsville (Dr. H. Priestley and 
F. H. Taylor); Ching Do (Ff. H. Taylor). 
Date of Capture. 26/1/1913 (Ching Do), March and 
April (Townsville). 
Observations. Described from one @ and several § 
specimens. It is distinguished from L. sinensis, Theob., 
by the absence of lateral abdominal spots, larger size, etc. 
Culicelsa simplex, n. sp. 
(Pl. XLIII, figs. 14 and 15.) 
Head clothed with light brown narrow-curved scales and white 
lateral ones. Thorax dark brown with brown narrow-curved 
scales. Abdomen black with basal banding and lateral basal 
spots. Legs brown with pale basal banding. 
9. Head dark brown, clothed with light brown narrow-curved 
and dark and pale upright forked scales with white lateral ones; 
border bristles dark brown, pale ones overhanging the eyes from 
the centre; eyes purplish black; antennae dark brown, basal lobes 
blackish, base of second segment pale; palpi black scaled, apex 
with a few snow white scales; proboscis black with a very broad 
median creamy band. 
Thorax dark brown, clothed with pale golden brown narrow- 
curved scales; scutellum dark brown clothed with pale narrow- 
curved scales, border bristles dark brown; metanotum dark brown; 
pleurae dark brown clothed with flat white scales. 
Abdomen black scaled with narrow white basal banding and 
lateral white basal spots; first segment clothed with numerous 
pale bristies, seventh with an incomplete apical white band; venter 
white scaled with dark brown apical bands. 
Legs brown; femora with the basal half densely mottled with 
white scales beneath, those of the fore and mid legs with a pale 
apical ring, hind femora forming a pale knee joint with the tibiae; 
hind tibiae pale at the apex; tarsals one to three with creamy white 
basal banding, remainder unbanded ; ungues equal and simple. 
Wings with the costa black, veins densely clothed with dark 
brown scales; fringe brown; first fork-cell longer and narrower 
than the second, the base of the latter nearer the base of the wing ; 
stem of the first fork-cell slightly more than half the length of the 
