Mr. F. H. Taylor on the Culicidae of Australia. 705 
joint also with a protuberance and clothed with fairly long scales ; 
ungues sickle-shaped equal and simple. 
Wings with costa black scaled and spinose, veins clothed with 
dark brown median scales and pale lateral ones; first fork-cell 
considerably shorter and narrower than the second; stem of the 
first fork-cell nearly three times the length of its cell, stem of the 
second a little more than twice the length of the cell; anterior 
basal cross-vein longer than the anterior cross-vein and twice its 
own length distant from it. Halteres with pale stems and black 
knobs. 
Length 2°5 mm. 
Habitat. QUEENSLAND, Townsville (Dr. H. Priestley). 
Observations. Described from a single specimen taken in 
a house at night-time. It can be easily separated from 
other Australian species by the bluish head and thoracic 
scales and the peculiar tarsal joint of the fore legs. 
Uranotaenia albescens, n. sp. 
(Pl. XLIV, figs. 21 and 22.) 
Head clothed with brown scales with a narrow border of pure 
white ones round the eyes. Thorax black, clothed with brown 
scales. Abdomen with the first three segments densely clothed 
with pure white scales. Legs blackish brown, tarsi pale. 
3. Head clothed with pale bronzy black broad flat and black 
upright forked scales and a narrow border of white flat ones to the 
eyes forming a patch on the sides of the head; eyes black; antennae 
with basal lobes and internodes pale, nodes black, penultimate 
and apical segments brown, plumes brown, very dense; palpi 
clothed with black scales and a few dark hairs; proboscis pale with 
the apex clothed with dark brown scales. 
Thorax black with the anterior lateral areas brown, clothed with 
dull bronzy narrow-curved scales with black lateral border bristles, 
dense above the wings; a line of pure white flat scales on the sides 
in front of the wings; prothoracic lobes black, clothed with densely 
applied snow white flat scales and a few black bristles; pleurae 
brown with two patches of snow white flat scales; scutellum 
yellowish with the posterior half of the mid lobe dark brown, 
clothed with dark brown scales, posterior border bristles black, 
four to the mid lobe and three to the lateral lobes; metanotum 
brown. 
Abdomen black, segments one to five clothed with dense white 
flat scales, the first with numerous pale yellow hairs also, segments 
