704 Mr. F. H. Taylor on the Culicidae of Australa. 
Legs black, femora white scaled beneath with a few pale scales 
above, knee spot pale; tibiae mottled, fore tibiae with a large 
creamy yellow scaled spot on the apical half; first three tarsi of the 
fore and mid legs with basal and apical yellowish banding, fourth 
with yellowish basal banding; first four tarsals of hind legs with 
yellowish basal and apical banding, fifth with basal banding; ungues 
small, equal and simple. 
Wings with the costa black scaled, spinose; veins clothed with 
broad dark brown and pale asymmetrical lateral scales and small 
dark brown and pale median flat ones; first fork-cell narrower 
and much longer than the second, base of the former considerably 
nearer the base of the wing than that of the latter; stem of the 
first fork-cell one-fifth the length of its cell, stem of the second 
fork-cell about half the length of the cell; anterior basal cross-vein 
the same length as the anterior cross-vein and slightly more than 
twice its own length distant from it; fringe grey. Halteres with 
white stems and black knobs. 
Length 4 mm. 
Habitat. QUEENSLAND, Townsville (Dr. H. Priestley). 
Date of Capture. 30/4/1913. 
Observations. Described from a single specimen. It is 
a very distinct and easily recognisable species. 
Uranoltaenia propria, n. sp. 
(Pl. XLIV, fig. 20.) 
Head black with blue black and pale bluish white scales. Thorax 
clothed with dark brown scales. Abdomen black scaled. Legs 
black. 
3g. Head black, clothed with deep blue black scales with pale 
bluish white ones bordering the eyes, the latter purplish black; 
proboscis black; palpi pale; antennae brown, basal lobes black, 
base of second segment pale; clypeus black. 
Thorax dark brown, clothed with brown narrow-curved scales 
with a short prealar bluish white line of scales; prothoracic lobes 
prominent, clothed with white flat scales—bluish in some lights; 
scutellum brown, clothed with brown scales; pleurae brown with 
bluish white flat scales; metanotum dark brown. 
Abdomen pale brown, clothed with black scales; venter pale. 
Legs black, unbanded, first tarsals of fore legs very short— 
not quite half the length of the second, slightly curved, with a 
large dorsal, basal, protuberance which is clothed with long semi- 
recumbent scales which are spoon-shaped at their apices, apex of 
