BY FREDERICK A. A. SKUSE. 
1745 
white scales. Head deep brown densely covered with brown and 
golden-yellow scales and hairs. Proboscis black, rather more than 
five times the length of the palpi. Palpi black. Thorax deep 
brown or pitchy black (when denuded), densely covered with 
golden-yellow and whitish scales, which give it an almost sericeous 
appearance, traversed by three longitudinal rows of brown hairs, 
the lateral ones extending from the collare to the scutellum, the 
intermediate row terminating at an oblong bare space in front of 
the scutellum ; pleui’ae deep umber-brown, spotted with small 
patches of white scales ; scutellum testaceous covered with whitish 
scales and long brown hairs ; metanotum testaceous or testaceous- 
brown. Halteres ochre-yellow. Abdomen nearly twice the 
length of the thorax, each segment covered with violet-black 
scales bordered anteriorly with an undulate ochreous band ; venter 
densely covered with pale ochreous scales ; lamellae of the ovi- 
positor deep brown, elongate. Coxge testaceous-brown, with white 
scales. Femox’a and tibiie covered with violet-black scales more or 
less dusted with pale ochreous, the former pale ochreous beneath 
and slightly yellow at the extreme apex. Tarsi covered with 
violet-brown scales, having a peculiar ochi*eous reflection at a 
certain obliquity. In the hind-legs the tibia ^ longer than the 
metatarsus. Wings nearly the length of the whole body, hyaline, 
the veins densely covered with violet-brown scales. Auxiliary 
vein joining the margin exactly opposite the tip of the posterior 
branch of the fifth longitudinal ; middle cross-vein rather longer 
than the posterior cross-vein, situated in front at a distance equal 
to rather less than the length of the latter ; first sub-marginal 
cell much narrower and scarcely longer than the second posterior 
cell, its base lying a little beyond that of the latter ; anterior 
branch of the fiftli longitudinal vein originating at a point nearer 
op]>osite the tip of the sixth longitudinal than to the origin of the 
second longitudinal, reaching the posterior border at a point 
opposite the middle of the second posterior cell. 
JIah. — Murrumbidgee, N.S.W. (Prof. W. J. iStephens). 
Ohs . — A day-dying mosquito. 
