Mr. F. H. Taylor on the Culicidae of Australia. 703 
serrated apices; palpi very short, three jointed, antennae fourteen 
jointed, second segment one-third longer than the third, pubescence 
very dense; proboscis with apex swollen. 
Thorax clothed with narrow-curved scales; scutellum clothed 
with flat scales; prothoracic lobes clothed with flat scales. 
Wings with small median flat scales and with broad asymmetrical 
flat ones on each side of the veins only; fork-cells small, the first 
narrower and much longer than the second. 
6. Unknown. 
This is a very distinct genus on account of the fan- 
shaped scales on the head and the squamose character of 
the wings. Its build and palpi suggest the Aedinae. 
Dixomyia elegans, n. sp. 
(Pl. XLITI, fig. 19; XLIV, fig. 18.) 
Head clothed with narrow-curved and flat scales with broad 
fan-shaped ones behind. Thorax clothed with narrow-curved 
scales; scutellum flat scaled. Abdomen unbanded with lateral 
spots. Wings with small median flat and broad asymmetrical 
scales on the veins. Legs with ochraceous apical and basal banding. 
9. Head black, clothed with patches of black and creamy yellow 
flat scales with a broad median stripe of pale narrow-curved and 
hair-like scales with numerous black and a few white broad fan- 
shaped ones with serrated apices; clypeus black; antennae black, 
basal lobe with small white flat scales and minute hairs, second 
segment one-third longer than the third, segments two to seven 
with pale apical rings, verticillate hairs brown, pubescence pale, 
dense; palpi pale, black scaled, apex pale; proboscis creamy 
mottled with black scales, base with a broad black band, apex 
swollen, black, tip creamy yellow; eyes black and silvery. 
Thorax black, clothed with black narrow-curved scales with 
broad stripe, gradually widening towards its apex, of golden yellow 
ones on the anterior two-thirds, bristles dark brown to black; 
prothoracie lobes clothed with small white flat scales and scanty 
dark bristles; scutellum clothed with black flat scales with a median 
patch of creamy yellow ones on the mid lobe, posterior border 
bristles dark brown, pleurae pale creamy with patches of black, 
clothed with white and black flat scales, the latter towards the 
prothoracic lobes; metanotum black. 
Abdomen clothed with black scales with coppery reflections, 
posterior border bristles yellowish, with white lateral spots on 
segments four to six; venter apparently dark scaled. 
