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with a pale basal band ; first two tarsal joints of the fore and 
mid legs with a narrow basal white band, and showing faint 
narrow basal bands, in some specimens, on the last two joints ; 
hind tarsi all basal ly white banded ; 
in the fore and mid tibiae and 
tarsi the under surface has an 
ochraceous tinge. 
Wings with brown-scaled veins, 
testaceous at the root, scales long 
and short; mid cross-vein about the same length as the posterior 
cross-vein, situated not quite its own length in front of it ; first 
sub-marginal cell a little longer and narrower than the second 
Fig. 139. 
Cutex vigilax, Skuse (?). (X. 9.) 
posterior cell. 
Halteres ochraceous, a little darker at the top. 
Length .—5 to 5’5 mm. 
Habitat. —Bupengary, Queensland (Bancroft) (5. 12. 1899). 
Skuse also gives Gosford, Kiama, and National Park, New 
South Wales; also Brisbane, Queensland (Bancroft and Try on). 
Time of appearance .—November to February. 
Observations .—The specimens sent by Dr. Bancroft are un¬ 
doubtedly C. vigilax of Skuse; but some slight differences occur, 
namely, the basal joint of the antennae is not “ ochraceous-brown 
or ochraceous,” but dark testaceous, and the mid cross-vein is 
scarcely any larger than the posterior cross-vein. It can be 
easily separated from the other Australian “ banded-leg ” species 
by the flat spindle-shaped bronzy scales on the thorax, and is of 
rather stouter build. 
33. CuLEX MARINUS. 11. Sp. 
(Fig. 75, PI. XIX.) 
Thorax black, with fawn-coloured and thin brown curved 
scales. Abdomen dark brown, with basal white bands to 
four segments, and distinct white lateral spots on the two 
towards the apex, the last two segments with narrow yellowish 
apical borders as well. Legs brown, the metatarsi and tarsi 
basally white banded ; femora paler brown, white beneath. 
9 . Head black, with scattered white curved scales and 
black upright forked ones, with flat black and silvery scales at 
the sides; eyes black and silver ; antennae dark brown, with a 
dark basal joint, which is pale yellowish at the top ; base of 
