Genus Culex. 175 
CULEX ALBOANNULATUS. Macquart. 
(Mono. Culicid. I., p. 389, 1901.) 
Additional locality——Como, Mittagong, New South Wales ; 
bred from larvae from May 14th to 29th (Froggatt). 
CULEX IMITATOR. nN. sp. 
Head with silvery-white narrow-curved scales, thorax brown, 
ornamented with narrow-curved, bright chestnut-brown and 
silvery scales, as follows: chestnut-brown in the middle, with 
two narrow parallel silvery lines in front, formed by two narrow 
white-scaled lines on the sides of two bare parallel lines, a few 
pale scales forming a short indistinct third line between and a 
few white scales behind; sides densely silvery-white scaled. 
Abdomen deep brown, with basal white bands, expanding 
laterally into basal white spots. Fore and mid legs unbanded, 
hind with broad basal white bands. 
dg. Head brown, covered with silvery-white narrow-curved 
scales on the occiput, with a dividing line in the middle, the 
scales turning outwards on each side from this line, sides of the 
head covered. with small flat white, then flat dusky scales. 
Proboscis dark brown, almost black, slightly expanded apically ; 
palpi as long as the proboscis, black scaled, with four white 
bands, the bands being on the basal part of the joints; the 
apical joint slightly shorter than the penultimate, both with a 
few long black bristles, base of palpi white. Antennae brown, 
with brown plumes. 
Thorax brown, ornamented with small, bright, chestnut- 
brown and silvery, narrow-curved scales, as follows: Bright 
chestnut-brown in the middle, with two parallel bare lines and a 
narrow border of white scales on each side of the bare lines 
in front, a few white scales in the middle in front, pure silvery 
white at the sides of the mesothorax and scattered white scales 
at the back ; bristles brown, longish, thick over the roots of the 
wings ; scutellum testaceous brown, covered with narrow-curved 
white scales and with six brown border-bristles to the mid lobe ; 
metanotum brown ; pleurae pallid. 
Abdomen deep brown to black, with basal white bands, 
