BY FREDERICK A. A. SKUSE. 
1747 
the second posterior cell, its base lying a short distance before that 
of the latter, and opposite the tip of the auxiliary vein ; anterior 
branch of the fifth longitudinal vein originating opposite a point 
i mid-way between the origin of the second longitudinal vein and 
J the tip of the sixth longitudinal, reaching the posterior border 
■ opposite the middle of the second posterior cell. 
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I Hah. — King Geox'ge’s Sound, Western Australia (Masters). 
Two specimens. 
210. CULEX LINEALIS, Sp.n. 
— Length of antennae 0 095 inch ... 2-.39 millimetres. 
■ Expanse of wings 0T60 x 0'045 ... 4-06 x 1T3 
Size of body 0-200 x 0-040 ... 5-08 x 1-01 
Antennse brown, about f the length of the proboscis ; fix’st joixxt 
of the scapus dull x-eddish-brown, with yellow scales. Head 
bx'own, dexisely covex’ed with golden-yellow scales and hairs. 
Proboscis ixxxifoi'mly covered with violet-black scales, aboxxt six 
times the length of the palpi. Palpi uxiiformly covered with 
violet-black scales. Thox-ax brown, with foxxr distinct lixies of 
golden-yellow scales, and densely bordex-ed laterally with goldexi- 
yellow scales ; interstices of the lines bax-e or nearly so ; two 
median lixxes x’unning parallel, and rather close togethex-, fx’onx the 
. anterior border for two-thix-ds the length of the thorax, at this 
i poixit apparently coalescent, but proceeding to the scutelluxxx is a 
i slightly wider fork, the branches being parallel ; the other two 
lines startixig below the axiterior border, running pax-allel, and 
continuing to the scutellum, and lying somewhat nearer to the 
median lines than to the lateral border of scales ; pleui-® brown, 
with a few somewhat indistinct patches of white scales and a 
small tuft of moderately long white haix’S under the origin of the 
wings ; scutellum browxi, with two lines of golden-yellow scales, 
coalesent at the apex, and appearing as a coxitinuation of the two 
median lines of the thorax ; beset with long golden-yellow hairs ; 
metanotum brown. Halteres ochre-yellow. Abdomen xxot quite 
