Genus Culex. 
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mania, as synonymous, but it cannot be the same, for Erichson 
states that the $ palpi are a little shorter than the proboscis ; 
in C. pervigilans they are decidedly longer. Walker’s C. crucians 
may be this species, but it is too denuded to make much out of. 
I think, however, it is distinct, for the two fork cells have their 
bases nearly level, the halteres testaceous, and the cross-veins 
slightly different. C. crucians was described from Tasmania, and 
may be synonymous with Erichson’s C. australis. 
92. Culex australis. Erichson (1842). 
Culex crucians. Walker (1856) (?). 
(Archiv. fur Naturg. viii. p. 470 (1842), Erickson; Ins. Saundersiana, i. 
p. 432 (1856) (= C. crucians ), Walker (?).) 
Thorax deep rich chestnut-brown, with small golden curved 
scales, more or less arranged in lines. Abdomen black, with 
basal creamy-white bands and large lateral white spots. Legs 
black, unbanded, with a distinct yellowish knee spot. Ungues 
of ? large, equal, uniserrated. Wings large, with very dark 
brown scales. 
9 . Head dark brown, with numerous long thin golden 
curved scales in the middle, which are scanty on each side, so 
that the head appears dark | a distinct narrow pale yellow 
scaled border to the eyes, flat creamy and then dark scales at 
the sides; between the eyes project a number of golden-brown 
bristles; eyes black and silvery; clypeus black; palpi large, 
testaceous, covered with black scales and a few grey ones and 
black bristles; antennae brown, basal joint partly testaceous, 
the inner side with black scales, the second and base of the third 
testaceous, the second with numerous bristles in the middle; 
verticillate hairs black ; proboscis black. 
Thorax deep clear chestnut-brown, with narrow golden curved 
scales, arranged somewhat in longitudinal rows and with three 
rows of black bristles, and with numerous black bristles over the 
roots of the wungs; scutellum brown, with narrow pale curved 
scales, and with numerous golden-brown border-bristles to the 
mid lobe more or less arranged in two irregular rows; meta- 
notum pale chestnut-brown; pleurae chestnut-brown, with small 
flat creamy-white scales. 
Abdomen covered with dusky black scales, with violet reflec¬ 
tions, each segment with a narrow basal band of white scales 
