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A Monograph of Culicidae. 
$. Head with pale greyish scales, a dark line running down 
the middle ; palpi as long as the proboscis, dark brown at the tip, 
paler basally, with a small pale band about one-third of the 
length from the base; proboscis dark brown, slightly paler 
towards the tip; antennae banded brown and white, with 
yellowish-brown verticils. 
Thorax bright testaceous, with long bristles, dark in some 
lights, yellowish in others. 
Abdomen similar to female, but the apex and genitalia deep 
brown. 
Legs as in J , but the femora are darker. Wings rather paler. 
Length .—5 to 5 * 5 mm. 
Habitat. —Bupengary, Queensland; a single $ and $ collected 
by Dr. Bancroft (5. 12. 1899); New Zealand (Walker). 
Observations .—The 9 seems somewhat rubbed, but the species 
can easily be distinguished by its general bright orange-yellow 
colour, dark metallic legs and metallic purplish abdominal banding. 
Judging from the much-damaged type of Walker’s O. acer 
from New Zealand, I should say the insect described here is 
undoubtedly this species. Walker describes the legs as being 
yellow shaded, with darker colour at intervals. The legs are 
evidently rubbed, and thus giving the specimen that appearance. 
11. Taeniorhynchus brevicellulus. n. sp. 
(Fig. 89, PL XXIII.) 
9 . Head brown, with long ochraceous upright forked scales, 
a pale border round the eyes, numerous small pale scales over the 
occiput and pale flat scales at the sides; golden-brown bristles 
projecting over the eyes; clypeus pale brown; palpi densely 
scaled with bronzy scales and hirsute; five-jointed, the last 
nipple-shaped, penultimate shorter than the antepenultimate; 
antennae deep brown, with narrow pale bands at the verticils; 
proboscis deep brown. 
Thorax appearing bright ochraceous in some lights with two 
deep purplish patches behind, dull purplish in other lights, 
covered with narrow curved golden scales, particularly thick in 
three rows following the three rows of bristles; scutellum deep 
purplish in the middle, bright ochraceous at the sides; metanotum 
deep brown; pleurae purplish-brown and ochraceous with two 
distinct patches of white scales and others scattered about. 
