STUDIES IN PHLEBOTOMIC DIPTERA, No. I. NEW SPECIES OF SIMULIDjE 



AND CHIRONOMIDjE. 

 By FRANK H. TAYLOR, F.E.S. from the Australian Institute of Tropical Medicine, 



Townsville.) 



(Figs. 1—3.) 

 The sand flics have, in the case of the Simulida?. been greatly neglected in Australia. There have 

 been described, so far. only two species. S. furiosum, Skuse, and S. Victoria), Rouband. 



I am now enabled to add another species, thanks to the courtesy of Dr. T. L. Bancroft, who kindly 

 presented .1 series ol dried specimens and also some preserved in alcohol to the Institute. 



The Chironomida: are somewhat better represented, as seventy-six species, distributed in seventeen 

 genera, have bun described to date, mainly by Skuse in 1889. 



Two new species are described in this paper — one of which was taken by Dr. J. H. L. Cumpston, 

 Director of Quarantine, and kindly presented to the Institute by him. The other was taken by my 

 colleague. Dr. W. J. Young. 



The type specimens are contained in the Institute collection. 



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