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and fourth, and the upper branch of the fifth, with very long 
scales. First sub-marginal cell much narrower than the second 
posterior cell, their stems of about equal length; base of the 
third long vein rather darkened. Halteres ochraceous. 
Length. —5 mm. 
9 • Head deep brown, with golden-brown scales and hairs ; 
palpi black scaled ; proboscis black ; antennae black, nearly as 
long as the proboscis. 
Thorax black, with dense golden and whitish scales, with 
three rows of brown hairs, much as in the $ . 
Abdomen with the segments violet-black scaled, with basal 
sinuous ochreous bands ; venter with ochreous scales; lamellae 
of ovipositor deep brown, elongate. 
Wings with violet-brown scales ; the first sub-marginal cell 
scarcely longer but much narrower than the second posterior 
cell, its base a little beyond that of the latter ; mid cross-vein 
rather longer than the posterior cross-vein, placed rather less 
than the length of the latter from it. (Skuse.) 
Length. —5*08 mm. 
Habitat. —Murrumbidgee, Hew South Wales (Skuse); Bupen- 
gary, South Queensland (Dr. Bancroft). 
Observations. —This species was described by Skuse from a 9 
specimen only. Dr. Bancroft sends a £ from Queensland which 
is undoubtedly the $ of this species, from which the above 
description is taken. I may have overlooked the $’s in some 
recent material sent by Dr. Bancroft. Skuse says it is a day¬ 
flying mosquito. 
Like a good many of the unbanded-legged Australian forms, 
it is rather obscure, but the golden-brown and pale scaled thorax 
and the pale scutellar scales will separate it from the other 
species I have seen. 
91. Culex pervigilans. Bergroth. 
(Wiener Entomolog. Zeitung, p. 295 (1889), Bergrotli.) 
(Fig. 101, PL XXVI.) 
Thorax dark brown, with dull golden scales more or less 
longitudinally arranged, with traces of two median parallel bare 
lines. Abdomen black, with basal white bands ; venter white 
scaled with median black spots. Legs black, with white spots 
at the apices of the femora and tibiae; ungues of the $ small, 
