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SOME NEW CULICID/E FEOM WESTERN AUSTRALIA, 

 SOUTH QUEENSLAND, AND TASMANIA. 



By E. H. Strickland (Dip. S.E.A.C). 



(Continued from p. 182.) 



Culicada inornata, n. sp. 



Thorax dark brown, clothed with golden brown scales, on the 

 posterior half are two lateral lines of whitish scales, spreading from 

 the wdiite pre-scutellar patch. Scutellum white scaled. Abdomen 

 black, scaled with indistinct white lateral spots, and basal bands on 

 some of the segments. Tarsi with poorly defined yellowish white 

 basal bands. 



$ . Head black, clothed with rather dull yellow narrow curved 

 scales, and similarly coloured upright forked scales at the back and 

 middle area of the head, which appear to be black in certain lights. 

 The lateral flat scales are white. A few golden yellow bristles 

 project between the eyes. There is a narrow margin of more white- 

 coloured scales bordering the eyes. Eyes bronzy. Palpi with white 

 scales at the apex, remainder dark scaled with a few white scales 

 scattered over the upper surface. Clypeus black. Antennae with 

 basal joint mainly dark with a few white scales. Second and third 

 joints mainly testaceous. Proboscis rather short. Thorax dark 

 brown, clothed with dull golden brown scales. On the posterior half 

 are two indistinct curved lateral lines of paler scales. The scales 

 before the scutellum are whitish. Scutellum clothed with white 

 narrow curved scales. Prothoracic lobes and pleurae with white 

 scales. Abdomen black, scaled with traces of dull white basal bands 

 forming a median patch on all segments. There are small irregular 

 lateral dull white spots on some of the segments. The ventral 

 surface is clothed with white scales. The femora and tibiae are 

 spotted, the former are mostly white scaled below. Knee spots 

 yellow. Tibiae unhanded. Tarsi not very definitely banded with 

 narrow yellowish-white bands. Fore and mid legs with apical 

 tarsus unhanded. Hind legs with all tarsi banded, though the bands 

 on the metatarsus and apical tarsal are very rudimentary and in- 

 complete. 



Wings not very densely scaled, the first fork cell is longer and 

 narrower than the second posterior cell. Its stem is about half the 

 length of the cell. The supernumerary and mid cross-veins are nearly 

 in line, the former being slightly nearer to the wing base. The 

 posterior cross-vein is rather less than its own length distant 

 from the mid cross-vein. Halteres with light stems and blackish 

 knobs. 



Length 5 mm. 



Habitat. —Tasmania. 



Observations. — Described from two rather damaged females. 

 It is apparently a true Culicada, the palpi being much longer 

 than those one usually finds in Culex. 



