700 Mr. F. H. Taylor on the Culicidae of Australia. 
the anterior cross-vein; fringe light brown. Halteres, stems pale 
with dusky knobs. 
Length 3 mm. 
Halitat. QUEENSLAND, Townsville. 
Date of Capture. 31/3/1913 (fF. H. Taylor). 
Observations. Described from two 3g specimens which 
were taken in water-butts on house properties. It is 
easily separated from its congeners by its unbanded legs, 
fore and mid ungues and small size. 
Culex occidentalis, Skuse. 
Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S. Wales, III, 2nd series, p. 1729 
(1888) ; Theobald, Mon. Culicid., I, p. 419 (1901); III, p. 179 
(1903). 
Additional Locality. Tasmania, Launceston (Ff. M. 
Lattler). 
CAENOCEPHALUS, N. g. 
Head clothed with narrow-curved and upright forked scales 
and flat lateral ones; palpi of 3 three-jointed, shorter than the 
proboscis, apical segment broadly spatulate, of 2 apparently three- 
jointed, second joint longest and flattened, third minute and nipple- 
shaped. 
Thorax clothed with small narrow-curved scales; prothoracic 
lobes clothed with small flat and narrow-curved scales; scutellum 
covered with narrow-curved scales. 
Wings longer than the abdomen; veins clothed with small flat 
median and lateral linear scales; fork-cells short. 
Caenocephalus concolor, n. sp. 
(Pl. XLIII, figs. 16 and 17.) 
Head clothed with pale narrow-curved scales and long thin 
brown and creamy upright forked ones with white flat ones on the 
sides. Thorax pale. Legs unbanded. Abdomen brown scaled 
with broad white basal banding and lateral basal spotting. 
3g. Head dark, clothed with creamy narrow-curved and creamy 
and brown upright forked scales and flat lateral ones; eyes purplish 
black, bristles bordering them brown; antennae pale, fifteen 
jointed, densely plumose, the latter brown, basal lobes brown, 
penultimate and apical segments brown; palpi pale, first segment 
black scaled, swollen at the apex, second and apical segments 
brown scaled, the latter broadly spatulate with outstanding scales, 
