Mr. F. H. Taylor on the Culicidae of Australia. 699 
cell; stem of the second as long as its cell; anterior basal cross-vein 
about two and a half times its length from the anterior cross-vein. 
Halteres with pale stems and dark knobs. 
Length 4—5 mm. 
Habitat. QUEENSLAND, Townsville (Dr. H. Priestley and 
F. H. Taylor). 
Observations. Described from specimens collected in 
houses during May. It is distinguished from C. annuliros- 
tris, Skuse, by the much wider band on the proboscis, 
its brown legs and the lateral basal spots on the abdomen. 
It is also readily distinguished from C. parvus, Taylor. 
Culicelsa fuscus, n. sp. 
Head clothed with pale scales. Thorax clothed with golden 
narrow-curved scales. Abdomen with white basal banding. Legs 
unbanded. 
3. Head black, clothed with creamy white narrow-curved scales 
with numerous creamy white and a few brown upright forked ones, 
a small patch of white flat ones on each side; antennae pale, about 
two-thirds as long as proboscis, nodes black, penultimate and apical 
segments brown, basal lobes brown, plumes dense, brown; palpi 
longer than proboscis, second joint very long, brown scaled, apex 
with a few hairs on ventral surface, third and four segments dark 
brown scaled with numerous dark brown hairs; proboscis with the 
basal two-thirds pale, apical third brown; eyes purplish black. 
Thorax brown, pale in front of the scutellum, clothed with 
golden narrow-curved scales; scutellum yellowish, clothed with 
pale yellowish narrow-curved scales; metanotum light brown, 
pleurae brown; prothoracic lobes brown. 
Abdomen brown scaled with basal white banding, the first 
segment brown scaled with pale hairs, penultimate and apical 
segments clothed with creamy white scales; posterior border 
bristles yellow, lateral border bristles pale brown; venter white 
scaled. 
Legs black with bronzy reflections ; femora pale beneath; ungues 
of fore and mid legs equal, uniserrate, hind ungues small, equal 
and simple. 
Wings with the costa dark brown scaled; veins clothed with 
brown scales; first fork-cell longer and narrower than the second, 
base of the latter scarcely nearer the base of the wing than that of 
the former; stem of the first fork-cell half the length of its cell, 
stem of the second two-thirds the length of the cell; anterior basal 
cross-vein longer than and about twice its own length distant from 
TRANS. ENT. SOC. LOND. 1913.—PARTIV. (MAR. 1914) zz 
