NEW CULICIDiE FROM WESTERN AUSTRALIA, ETC. 249 



The complete transformations of the summer emergence of 

 atalanta are of short duration, occupying in all about fifty days — 

 the egg state nine days ; larval state twenty-three days ; pupal 

 state seventeen days — total forty-nine days from the time the 

 egg is laid to the emergence of the imago. These are the aver- 

 age periods, which are liable to vary somewhat according to 

 temperature. 



The butterflies of the summer brood pair and produce others, 

 so that a succession of broods occur during the summer and 

 autumn, which accounts for the larvae in all stages occurring 

 from about the middle or end of June until the middle of Sep- 

 tember, and fully grown larvae during the early part of October. 

 May, 1911. 



SOME NEW CULICID^ FROM WESTERN AUSTRALIA, 

 SOUTH QUEENSLAND, AND TASMANIA. 



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



(Continued from p. 204.) 



Stegomyia tasmaniensis, n. sp. 



Head with silvery scales round the eyes, remainder dark. 



Thorax clothed with dark scales all over. Scutellar scales also 

 all dark. Pleuras and pro-thoracic lobes with silvery scales. Abdo- 

 men dark scaled with silvery lateral spots. 



Legs dai-k, unhanded ; silvery knee-spots on all femora, and sil- 

 very apical spot on all tibiae. The last two hind tarsi, with part of 

 the third, are of a dull white colour. 



2 . Head clothed with flat scales, which are of a black colour, 

 except round the posterior borders of the eyes, where they are white; 

 and a few black upright forked scales at the back of the head. The 

 proboscis and palpi are entirely covered with dark scales. Eyes dark 

 brown. Clypeus black rugose. Mesothorax covered with blackish 

 narrow curved scales with a slight brownish reflection. There are a 

 few stout long bristles, especially about the wing roots. Scutellum 

 with black flat scales, with a violaceous reflection, and strong pos- 

 terior bristles to the lobes. Prothoracic lobes and pleurge with sil- 

 very spindle-shaped scales. Abdomen with black flat scales, with a 

 violaceous reflection ; and with silvery apical lateral spots on all 

 segments except the first two. Ventral surface of abdomen clothed 

 with mixed white and dark scales, which are all white on the apical 

 segment. 



Legs with a white apical spot on all the femora and tibiae. Fore 

 and mid tarsi all dark, unhanded. Hind legs pale scaled on the 

 inside along the entire length, last two hind tarsi, and part of third 

 tarsus all dull white. Wings with brown scales, with a violaceous 

 reflection. First fork cell long, shghtly narrower than the second 

 posterior, and its base considerable nearer the base of the wing ; its 



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