196 Mr. Frank H. Taylor on Culicidae from Papua. 



Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S. Wales, III, 2nd series, p. 1731 

 (1888); Theobald, Mon. Culicid., I, p. 369 (1901); III, 

 p. 178 (1903) ; IV, p. 382 (1907) ; V, p. 317 (1910). 



Additional Localities. Papua, Mekeo District {Dr. 

 Breinl) ; Sabai Island, Torres Straits {T. A. Williams). 



Cidicelsa annidirostris, Skuse. 



(Plate XVII, fig. 6.) 



Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S. Wales, III, 2nd series, p. 1737 

 (1888). 



Additional Locality. Papua, Lakekamu Gold Field. 

 Time of Capture. 20/10/10 {Dr. Gihlin). 



Culicelsa annulirostris, Skuse. 



var. milni, var. nov. 



(Plate XVIII, figs. 7-8.) 



Thorax black with pale narrow scales. Abdomen with black 

 scales, basal bands of pale creamy white. Legs with dusky brown 

 scales, femora pale beneath. 



$. Head dark brown with creamy white narrow curved scales, 

 a small lateral patch of flat creamy white ones and creamy yellow 

 and brown upright forked ones at the base; antennae brown, 

 second segment dark brown, basal lobe black ; eyes purplish black 

 with a fringe of pale yellowish hairs and a few overhanging them 

 from the centre ; palpi black scaled ; proboscis black with a narrow 

 white band in the middle, in some lights the band appears to be 

 creamy; clypeus brown. 



Thorax black densely covered with mixed creamy white and pale 

 brown narrow curved scales with three rows of pale yellowish 

 bristles on each side, brown above the roots of the wings; pro- 

 thoracic lobes brown, prominent, with pale narrow curved scales 

 and yellowish bristles ; scutellum light brown clothed with whitish 

 narrow curved scales with five brownish bristles to the mid lobe and 

 three to each of the lateral lobes ; metanotum brown ; pleurae 

 brown with patches of white flat scales. 



Abdomen pale black scaled, truncate at apex; the base of each 

 •segment with a band of creamy white scales expanding in width 

 towards the centre of segments two to six ; posterior border bristles 

 pale yellow; venter pale yellowish fairly densely covered with 

 yellowish hairs and with black scales with bi'oad white basal bands 

 which expand laterally, last two segments unhanded, the penultimate 

 with white lateral spots. 



