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and with short pale golden border-bristles, and with large white 
basal lateral triangular patches; venter mostly white scaled. 
Legs unbanded; femora yellowish-white at the base and 
along the basal two-thirds of the venter; apex and all the 
upper surface deep brown, knee spot pale yellow, tibiae and 
tarsi almost black, the former with pale grey reflections below; 
hind metatarsus not quite so long as the hind tibia; the tarsi 
show distinct violet reflections; ungues rather thick, equal, 
uniserrated, deep brown. 
Wings testaceous at the base, veins clothed with deep brown 
scales, the costa being especially dark ; longer than the abdomen ; 
first sub-marginal cell longer and narrower than the second 
posterior cell, their bases nearly level; stem of the first sub¬ 
marginal not quite half the length of the cell, about the same 
length as that of the second posterior cell; posterior cross-vein 
nearly one and a half times its own length distant from the mid 
cross-vein. 
Halteres with pale stem and fuscous knob. 
Length. —6 • 5 to 7 mm. 
Habitat.— Marysville, Victoria (Bancroft) (106). 
Time of capture. —October. 
Observations. — Described from three 9 ?s * It is a large 
mosquito, very like C. Frenchii , mihi, at first sight, but can at 
once be told by the basally banded abdomen. The long black 
legs and long dark-scaled wings give it a very marked appear¬ 
ance, and although closely related, is evidently distinct from 
C. Frenchii. The description of Erichson’s Culex australis 
applies to this species, which also occurs in Tasmania as well 
as Victoria. As far as I can judge from notes made on the 
remnant of Walker’s Culex crucians , I feel sure it is synonymous, 
the descripbion having been drawn up from a worn specimen 
(vide note re type). Both original descriptions are appended. 
Description from Erichson :— 
“ Testaceus, thorace dorso fusco, abdomine nigro-fasciato, femoribus 
tibiis que summo apice pallides. 
“Antennae luteous. Proboscis somewhat elongate, palpi a little 
shorter than it is in the 6 . Head fusco-testaceous. Thorax fuscous on 
the back, testaceous at the pleurae and below. Abdomen covered with a 
grey pilosity, segments pale at the base, black at the apex. Legs fusco- 
testaceous, with the femora and tibiae white at the extreme apex. Wings 
hj^aline, veins testaceous, with the anterior ones fusco-villous. 
Length of the body, 3| lines; of proboscis, 2 lines.” 
