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A Monograph of Culicidae. 
Culicada bupengaryensis. Theobald (1905). 
Culex bupengaryensis. Theobald (1905). 
Journ. Econ. Biol. I., No. 1, 27 (1905); Mono. Culicid. IV., 348 (1909), 
Theobald. 
Bupengary, South Queensland. 
Culicada mediopunctata. nov. sp. 
Thorax deep brown ; head paler with a creamy border around 
the eyes ; palpi and proboscis deep brown. Abdomen deep 
brown, the segments with basal median greyish-white spots, pale 
lateral basal spots ; venter yellow, the segments with narrow 
apical dark- borders. Legs deep brown, unbanded, apices of hind 
tibiae yellow, knee spots pale. 
9 . Head brown with narrow-curved pale scales, a dense 
bright golden border of scales around the eyes ; upright forked 
scales thin, dark ; chaetae dark brown, somewhat golden 
between the eyes; palpi rather long, black; proboscis and 
clypeus black; antennae black, basal segment and base of second 
segment bright testaceous, the former with some small flat 
pale scales. 
Thorax deep rich brown with small narrow-curved golden 
scales; some short golden chaetae in front of the roots of the 
wings and the others dark brown ; scutellum brown with narrow- 
curved pale scales and deep brown border-bristles; metanotum 
deep brown ; pleurae pale brown with patches of dull creamy 
flat scales. 
Abdomen deep blackish-brown, almost black, the segments, 
except the basal one, with median basal dull-white patches ; 
border-bristles golden ; laterally are pale creamy basal lateral 
patches; venter yellow scaled, except at the apex, where they 
are creamy, each segment with a narrow dark scaled apical 
border. 
Legs deep brown, except the femora, which are ochreous 
below and with some pale scales scattered about, knee spots pale, 
apex of hind tibiae with a prominent white band; chaetae 
golden; ungues all equal and uniserrate. 
Wings with the fork-cells short; the first sub-marginal a little 
longer and narrower than the second posterior cell, its stem 
about half the length of the cell, its base slightly nearer the base 
of the wing, stem of the second posterior about two-thirds the 
