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A Monograph of Culicidae. 
coxae pale brown, darker externally, with a few white scales 
and black bristles ; femora pale underneath, knee spot white, 
involving both sides of the joint * tibiae with a pale apical spot ; 
femora with longish bristles ; tibiae with stouter ones; ungues 
equal, simple, very small and much curved. 
Wings densely clothed along the veins with brown scales, all 
except the bases of the sub-costal; bases of the first, fifth, and 
sixth veins with long thin lateral scales ; first sub-marginal cell 
long and narrow, much longer than the second posterior cell, its 
base a little nearer the base of the wing than that of the latter, 
its stem short, only about one-fourth of the length of the cell, 
shorter than the stem of the second posterior cell, which is about 
one-third the length of the cell; supernumerary and mid cross¬ 
veins slightly separate, the posterior cross-vein a little longer 
than the mid, and about twice its own length distant from it ; 
fringe brown. Halteres with a pale stem and broad cup-shaped 
knob, with a deep black border on one side. 
Length. — 5*5 to 6 mm. 
Antennae greyish-white, with Y-shaped black bands, 
the apex of the Y towards the tip of the antenna; the two long 
apical joints and plume hairs brown; proboscis dark brown, 
paler in the middle, black at the base; palpi longer than the 
proboscis by the whole of the last and the apex of the penulti¬ 
mate joint, dark brown, with a narrow pale ring towards the 
base; last two joints and the upper part of the antepenultimate 
joint evenly provided with stiff black hairs; apical joint about 
the same length as the penultimate, pointed. 
Abdomen narrow, the basal bands broader than in the $ , 
those on the last three segments expanded laterally; densely 
clothed with golden-brown hairs; genitalia brown; basal joint 
short and broad ; ungues of the fore and mid legs unequal, both 
uniserrated, hind ungues equal, simple, curved. 
Length .—6 mm. 
Habitat .—New Zealand (Prof. It. I. Scott) (21. 7. 1899); and 
Christchurch, New Zealand (F. W. Hutton). 
Observations .—A considerable series of this species has been 
sent from New Zealand, some under the name C. albirostris, 
others as C. pervigilans. There were no G. albirostris amongst 
them, all being unbanded-legged forms. The species seems to be 
common in New Zealand. The female ungues are very marked, 
being small and much curved. 
Synonymy. —Giles gives C. australis , Erichson, from Tas- 
