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Legs clothed with bronzy-brown scales; coxae brown, with a 
few pale scales; the ventral surface of the femora pale ; ungues 
narrow, equal, and simple. 
Wings with brown scales, the lateral ones being of a very 
elongated oval form; first sub-marginal cell longer and narrower 
than the second posterior cell, its stem equal to about half the 
length of the cell; posterior cross-vein nearly three times its own 
length distant from the mid cross-vein. 
Halteres pale, with a dusky knob. 
Length .—5*5 mm. 
Habitat. —New Zealand. 
Observations. —Redescribed from Walker’s type in the British 
Museum. It is certainly a distinct species. I cannot see how 
Major Giles makes it synonymous with Erichson’s C. australis 
(Walker’s C. crucians). Hudson in his Manual of New Zealand 
Entomology figures a mosquito under this name; it is not this 
species, however, as there is abdominal banding, and it is probably 
G. pervigilans or C. australis. I think this species should be 
removed to Taeniorhynchus. 
71. Culex pulcriventer. Giles. 
(The Entomologist, July, p. 194, 1901.) 
(Fig. 92, PI. XXIU.) 
Thorax black, with a patch of golden scales in front, a line of 
golden scales on each side along the posterior half of the meso- 
notum, curved downwards in front, a few golden scales at the 
sides, and a row on each side of the bare space in front of the 
scutellum. Abdomen black, with basal lateral curved silvery- 
white patches; venter golden-yellow, with basal white patches 
and a narrow black border to the segments; traces of a lateral 
yellow line also seen along the abdomen. Legs black, except at 
their bases; tibiae with pale bristles. Ungues of the fore and 
mid legs equal, uniserrated, of the hind equal and simple ; ungues 
of the £ unequal in the fore and mid legs, the larger with two 
and the smaller with one tooth, hind ones equal and simple. 
9 . Head black, with a median patch of golden-yellow scales, 
with a bare line in the middle, black on each side, with a narrow 
pale line around the eyes and flat white scales at the sides of the 
head, a tuft of golden bristles projecting forwards between the 
eyes, with a few narrow, scattered, upright, deep ochraceous ones 
