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12. Culex australis Er. 
Culex crucians Walk. 
Archiv für Naturg. III. p. 470 (1 842) Erichson ; Ins. Saundersiana. I. p. 432 (1856) 
(-- crucians) Walker; Monogr. Culicid. II. p. 91 (1901) Theobald. 
A % from Mount Victoria, New South Wales, Australia (Biró 1900), 
taken in November. The posterior cross-vein is nearer the mid than in 
those specimens I have seen from Victoria. The legs are very dark and 
the pale tibial spot referred to by Erichson quite absent. 
13. Culex lateralis Meig. 
Syst. Beschr. 1. 5. 5 (1818) Meigen ; Monogr. Culicid. II. 51 (1901) Theobald; 
Állattan. Közi. III. 58 (1904) Kertész. 
Specimens taken in various parts of Hungary (vide : Kertész, p. 59). 
Also recorded from : England, Austria, Russia, Switzerland and Algeria. 
14 Culex trimaculatus n. sp. 
Head with dull golden narrow-curved scales and dark upright for¬ 
ked scales ; thorax pale yellowish-brown with a large median reddish- 
brown elongate triangular spot and another 
on each side behind; metanotum bright yel¬ 
lowish-brown. Abdomen brown (rather in¬ 
distinct) basal bands spreading out laterally. 
Legs brown unbanded. Wings of typical Cu- 
lex-form. 
J . Head brown with small narrow-cur¬ 
ved golden scales and numerous thin dark- 
brown upright forked scales ; proboscis rather 
short, brown ; palpi and antennæ brown. 
Thorax (Fig. 5) pale yellowish-brown with 
a median reddish-brown elongated triangular 
spot, the base near the head and another 
reddish-brown spot on each side at the back, 
covered with small scattered narrow-curved dull golden scales and nume¬ 
rous golden bristles over the roots of the wings ; scutellum pale yello¬ 
wish-brown with dusky narrow-curved scales on the mid lobe, paler ones 
on the side lobes ; border-bristles pale golden, nine to the mid lobe ; me¬ 
tanotum pale brown. 
Fig. 5. Culex trimaculatus 
n. sp. (Ç). Thoracic orna¬ 
mentation. 
