NEW CULICID^ FROM WESTERN AUSTRALIA, ETC. 181 



The following genera are represented by the new species in 

 this collection : — (1) Culicada (Felt), four species. (2) Stegom- 

 yia (Theo), one species. (3) Andersonia (nov. gen.), one species. 



Type specimens of these have been sent to the British 

 Museum. 



Culicada tasmaniensis, n. sp. 



Thorax black, ornamented with mixed golden and brownish-black 

 narrow curved scales, with a more or less distinct median spot of 

 more creamy scales a httle before the scutellum. Abdomen with 

 broad white basal bands on all segments. Legs unhanded, femora 

 mostly pale beneath. Wing membrane with a slight brownish tinge. 



$ . Head dark brown in the middle, but lighter laterally with 

 rather large creamy narrow curved scales, which are finer and 

 smaller at the back of the head, where there are a few black upright 

 forked scales. These are replaced in the front of the head by many 

 long black bristles. The median flat scales are creamy and are inter- 

 spersed with black bristles. Antennae brown, second segment testa- 

 ceous at the base. Palpi dark with several black strong bristles. 

 Proboscis brown, darker at the apex than at the base. Prothoracic 

 lobes with a few creamy white broad scales and black bristles. 



The thorax is unornamented, except for the pale spot in front of 

 the scutellum, the golden and dark scales being evenly distributed 

 over the remaining area. Bristles are most numerous over the wing 

 roots and round the base of the mesothorax, elsewhere they are 

 practically absent. Scutellum with golden narrow curved scales, 

 and strong posterior border bristles on all lobes. Abdomen dark 

 with broad rather dull white basal bands on all segments, ventral 

 surface mainly white scaled. Wings not very densely scaled, scales 

 rather narrow and brown. First fork cell longer and narrower than 

 second posterior, Supernumerary cross-vein nearer the base of the 

 wing than the mid cross-vein, by about two-thirds of its own length; 

 posterior cross-vein about one and a half times its own length 

 distant from the mid cross-vein. Apices of all femora and tibias 

 more or less clothed with ochi-eous scales. Apex of hind tibia and 

 base of hind metatarsus rather densely clothed ventrally with light 

 coloured scales. Tarsi all dark. (Ungues x + i + t-) Halteres 

 with light stems and dark knobs. 



Length 6-5-8-5 mm. 



^ . Scales on the head similar to those on the head of the 

 female, but fewer bristles are present. The dark scaled palpi are 

 about four-fifths the length of the proboscis. The fourth joint is 

 somewhat shorter than the three preceding joints which are sub- 

 equal. First joint slender, especially at the base ; second joint with 

 apex swollen, and bearing on this part long ventral hairs ; third 

 joint cylindrical and entirely clothed ventrally with long hairs, 

 apical joint swollen towards the apex. Antennae not very densely 

 plumose. 



Thorax and abdomen similar to that of the female, except that 

 the ventral surface of the latter is mainly dark with broad basal pale 

 bands, and the dorsal basal bands are more snowy white. 



Legs similarly scaled to those of the females. Ungues apparently 



