BY FREDERICK A. A. SKUSE. 
1751 
hairs ; metaiiotum reddish-brown. Halteres ochreous, the club 
and apical portion of the stem more or less brown. Abdomen 
about twice the length of the thorax, uniformly clothed superiorly 
with violet-black scales, each segment with a white patch at the 
sides ; venter densely covered with silvery-white scales. Legs 
covered with violet-black scales, the coxae more or less covered 
with silvery -white scales and the femora dusted on their basal half 
with pale scales which have a light bronzy reflection in a certain 
light. In the hind-legs the metatarsus nearly y longer than the 
tibia. Wings longer than the abdomen, pellucid, almost hyaline, 
with an almost imperceptible brownish tint, the veins thickly 
covered with violet-black scales ; violaceous and purpureous 
reflections. Auxiliary vein joining the costa opposite a point 
about mid-way between the middle and posterior cross- vein, and 
considerably before the tip of the posterior branch of the fifth 
longitudinal vein ; middle cross- vein considerably shorter than the 
posterior cross-vein, and situated beyond it a distance equal to 
about twice the length of the latter ; first sub-marginal cell much 
longer and scarcely narrower than the second posterior cell, its 
Vjase lying somewhat before that of the latter ; anterior branch of 
the fifth longitudinal vein originating opposite a point about 
mid-way between the origin of the second longitudinal and the 
tip of the sixth longitudinal. 
Hab . — Homebush (Masters): Sutherland, and Knapsack Gully, 
N.S.W. (Skuse). 
Obs . — A specimen taken by me at Mossman’s Bay, near 
Sydney, appears to belong to this species ; the femora and tibise 
are tipped with white scales, and the tarsi exhibit light reflections 
when viewed at a certain obliquity. 
Genus 3. Anopheles, Meig. 
Anopheles, Meigen, Syst. Beschr. I. 1818, p. 10; Brit. Eiit. 
Vol. V. 1828, p. 210; Macquart, S. a B. Vol. 1.1834, p. 32; 
Zetterstedt, D. Sc. 1850 ; Walker, I. B. Vol. III. 1850, p. 248; 
Schinei’, F. A. 1864. 
