Genus Guilesia. 233 
marked species, yet there is no particularly striking character 
that one can place on paper, except the marked disposition of 
the cross-veins. There is a general dull metallic ochraceous hue 
over the greater part of the insect in some lights owing to the 
ground colour showing through the scaly armour. 
Genus 21. GILESIA. nov. gen. 
(Plate XII.) 
Head covered with rather broad flat spindle-shaped scales ; 
mesothorax with scattered flat spindle-shaped scales and narrow 
curved ones; scutellum with small flat scales and some spindle- 
shaped ones. Palpi four-jointed in the ?, rather long, about 
one-fourth the length of the thick proboscis, apical joint long, 
penultimate joint swollen, globose, the two basal joints small. 
Basal joint of the antennae with numerous hair-like bristles and 
a few small flat scales. Ungues very thick, rather short and 
all with a thick blunt tooth. Wing venation much as in Culea ; 
fork-cells short and the veins clothed with rather broad elongated 
scales like Taeniorhynchus. 
Male unknown. 
This genus is related to Culex on the one hand and Stegomyia 
on the other, whilst the wings give it a Taeniorhynchus-like 
appearance. The important characters are the scale ornamenta- 
tion of the head and scutellum and the hairy and scaly basal 
antennal joint and the curious claws and palpi. <A single species 
only is known from Queensland. 
GILESIA ACULEATA. 20. sp. 
Thorax dark brown, with scattered, flat, spindle-shaped, 
creamy scales, narrower in the middle than at the sides ; pleurae_ 
brown, with numerous scattered pale scales. Abdomen deep 
brown, with irregular basal creamy bands, which expand into 
large lateral patches, apical segments with scattered pale scales, 
thickest on their apical borders. Legs brown, with scattered 
creamy scales, metatarsi and tarsi, except the last, with basal 
pale creamy bands. 
Q. Head brown, covered with flat spindle-shaped pale 
