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rather close together, from the anterior border for two-thirds 
the length of the thorax, at this point apparently coalescent, but 
proceeding to the scutellum in a slightly wider fork, the branches 
being parallel ; the other two lines starting below the anterior 
border, running parallel and continuing to the scutellum, and 
lying somewhat nearer to the median lines than to the lateral 
border of scales ; pleurae brown, with a few somewhat indistinct 
patches of white scales and a small tuft of moderately long white 
hairs under the origin of the wings ; scutellum brown, with two 
lines of golden-yellow scales, coalescent at the apex, and appear- 
ing as a continuation of the two median lines of the thorax ; 
beset with long golden-yellow hairs ; metanotum brown. 
Halteres ochre-yeliow. Abdomen not quite twice the length 
of the thorax, superior segments covered with violet-black scales, 
each segment bordered anteriorly with a very narrow band 
of ochre-yellow ; venter ochre-yellow, each segment bordered 
posteriorly with a moderately narrow band of violet - brown 
or violet black. Coxae and femora ochre-yellow, the latter 
more or less covered along the upper side and at the tip with 
violet-black sca ] es, the extreme apex of the femora ochre-yellow ; 
tibiae and tarsi violet-black or violet-brown, the former with a 
more or less distinct line of ochre-yellow on the sides and slightly 
ochre-yellow at the extreme apex, and the first two joints of the 
tarsi very slightly and indistinctly ochre-yellow at the base. 
In the hind-legs the tibiae about one-third longer than the meta- 
tarsi. Wings longer than the abdomen, hyaline, the veins densely 
covered with violet-brown scales. Auxiliary vein joining the 
costa opposite the middle cross- vein and a little before the tip 
of the posterior branch of the fork of the fifth longitudinal ; 
middle cross-vein rather indistinct, longer than the posterior 
cross-vein situated beyond it a distance twice the length of the 
latter ; first sub-marginal cell scarcely longer than the second 
posterior cell, considerably narrower, its base lying a short dis- 
tance beyond that of the latter ; anterior branch of the fifth 
longitudinal vein originating opposite a point mid-way between 
the origin of the second longitudinal vein and the tip of the 
sixth longitudinal, reaching the posterior border opposite the 
middle of the second posterior cell. 
Habitat : Knapsack Gully, Blue Mountains ; Hexham and 
Wheeny Creek, N.S.W. (Skuse), October and January ; Enoggera, 
South Queensland (Bancroft). 
This is a rather uncommon species, biting in scrubby places 
on Kedron Brook, Enoggera. Specimens were submitted to 
Mr. Theobald, who is of opinion, that they are examples of 
Skuse's Culex linealis ; although the two median golden-scaled 
lines on the thorax do not meet in the middle, as described by 
Skuse ; in every other particular the description tallies. Mr. 
Theobald suggests that a specimen be compared with Skuse's 
type in Sydney. 
