Mr. F. H. Taylor on the Culicidae cf Australia. 701 
apex of the first segment, second and base of apical segment clothed 
with fairly long brown bristles; proboscis black, clypeus brown. 
Thorax pale with a broad chestnut brown stripe extending to 
the wing roots, clothed with small black and creamy narrow-curved 
scales; prothoracic lobes brown, clothed with pale narrow-curved 
and flat scales and brown chaetae; scutellum basally pale, remainder 
brown, clothed with white narrow-curved scales, posterior border 
bristles dark brown, prealar bristles dark brown; metanotum light 
brown; pleurae pale, clothed with mixed creamy and brown flat 
scales and brown hairs. 
Abdomen pale, clothed with brown scales with broad white basal 
banding to the segments; first segment brown, clothed with white 
scales and brown hairs, lateral border spots white; genitals with 
the basal lobes brown, densely hairy, inner margins pale, claspers 
pale, long, with the basal half swollen, posterior border bristles 
pale, lateral ones brown and dense; venter brown scaled with basal 
white banding. 
Legs black, femora white scaled beneath, knee spots white, tibiae 
pale at the apex; ungues of fore and mid legs unequal the larger 
with two teeth, the smaller with one, hind equal and uniserrate. 
Wings with the veins brown scaled; costa dark brown; fringe 
brown; first fork-cell longer and narrower than the second, base 
of the latter nearer the base of the wing than that of the former; 
stem of the first fork-cell slightly more than half the length of its 
cell, stem of the second scarcely as long as the cell; anterior basal 
cross-vein longer than the anterior cross-vein and twice its own 
length distant from it. 
Length 5 mm. 
Q. Similar to g. Head with the brown upright forked scales 
more numerous than in 3; antennae dark brown, verticillate hairs 
short, dark brown, pubescence pale, dense, basal lobes and second 
segment paler; palpi clothed with dark brown scales, second segment 
flattened, apex pale scaled. Abdomen with the second and third 
segments with the white basal banding broader than in the g. 
Legs with the ungues all equal and simple. 
Length 5 mm. 
Habitat. N.S. Waks, Cronulla. 
Time of Capture. Bred from larvae found in salt-water 
pools in rocks 13/11/1911 (Mrs. J. B. Cleland). 
Observations. Described from specimens presented to 
the Institute by Dr. J. B. Cleland. It is a very distinct 
species, easily distinguished by the palpi and ungues of 
both sexes. 
