Genus Lasioconops. 235 
and scarcely longer than the second posterior cell, its stem more 
than half the length of the cell, its base a little nearer the 
apex of the wing than that of the second posterior ; stem of 

Fig. 123. 
Wing of Gilesia acuieata. 2. wn. sp. 
the latter more than two-thirds the length of the cell ; posterior 
eross-vein rather close to the mid cross-vein ; halteres with pale 
stem and brown knob. 
Length.—6 mm. 
Time of capture.—May. 
Habitat.—South Queensland (Dr. Bancroft’. 
Observations.—Described from two ?’s sent by Dr. Bancroft 
to the British Museum. It is a very marked species, easily told 
by the scale ornamentation, which clearly places it in a distinct 
genus. The palpi are also very marked. To some extent it 
resembles Culex cantans, Meigen, but the claws are much stouter 
and the scale ornamentation differs. Dr. Bancroft sends the 
following note on this species: “I found them on two occasions 
in a particular spot in a jungle near here (Bupengary) ; they 
flew down from the trees to bite me.” 
Genus 22. LASIOCONOPS. nov. gen. 
Head clothed with similar scales to Culex; antennae with 
the basal joint with a few scales; palpi short in the 9. Thorax 
clothed with narrow-curved scales. Abdomen clothed with flat 
scales and with large projecting flat lateral scales, with deeply 
dentate apices, in more or less dense tufts. Wings with typical 
Culex scales and venation. 
