DIPTEEA OF AUSTRALIA. 
By Frederick A. A. Skuse. 
Part V.— the CULIClDiE. 
(Plate xl.) 
The Australian species of this family are numerous, but like 
the other small Diptera of the country have never been much 
noticed. Up to the present time nine species of Culex and one 
of Anopheles are recorded. Of the former I regard C camptor- 
hynchus, Thomson, as synonymous with C. alboa'mulatus, Mac- 
quart; and C. tiniendiis, Walker, recorded in that author’s 
“ Xotes on Diptera and lists of Species (1874),” appears to me to 
have been named only, for I have looked for it in vain amongst 
his published descriptions. In the present paper one species of 
Megarrhina, thirteen of Culex, four of Anopheles, and one of 
^des are described as new, while one species of Culex, which is 
wide-spread in the country, is dubiously regarded as an introduced 
species, the total amounting to twenty-eight. There are beyond 
doubt many more species yet to be discovered, and it is not at all 
certain that even all those prevalent in the neighbourhood of 
Sydney are completely exhausted, more particularly as a new 
well-marked species was found here just before the completion of 
the present contribution. 
A few years since the Hon. William Macleay named, and drew 
up descriptions of, a few of the species re[)resented in his collec- 
tion ; these names I have in all cases retained. 
The Culicidse constitute the second family of the sub-division 
Polyneura, and are divided into two sub-families, the Culicina 
(including Megarrhina, Culex, Anopheles, and Al^ides), and the 
CoRETiiRiNA (including Corethra and Mochlonyx). iSabethes and 
Psorophora, both established by K. Desvoidy, are regarded as 
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