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and the subcostal densely scaled with large dark brown spathulate 

 scales ; fringe brown ; base of the wing pale ; halteres pale ochraceous. 

 Length, 4-5 mm. 



^ . Palpi black-scaled, apical joint white, base of penultimate joint 

 white, also apex of the ante-penultimate, a small pale band about the 

 middle of the long ante-penultimate joint, a few prominent black 

 bristles on the last two joints, not forming regular hair-tufts, a distinct 

 black spine at the apex of the ante-penultimate joint ; the apical joint 

 about half the length of the penultimate ; plume-hairs of antennsB 

 deep brown. Thorax as in the female. Abdomen narrow, brown, 

 with either basal lateral white spots or basal white bands, which 

 spread out laterally ; hairy. Basal lobes of the genitalia broad and 

 truncated. Legs ornamented as in the female ; fore and mid ungues 

 unequal, the larger uniserrated ; hind equal and simple. Length, 

 4-5 mm. 



Hah. South Queensland. 



Time of capture. February. 



Observations. — Described from a series of dried and spirit 

 specimens collected and bred by Dr. Bancroft. This species was 

 taken breeding in a fresh-water well near Dr. Bancroft's house. 

 It does not appear to bite the human subject. Dr. Bancroft bred 

 them out from larvse in conjunction with those of S. notoscripta 

 and C. fatigans. It is a very marked species, easily told by the 

 leg-banding, thoracic and abdominal ornamentation. The thorax 

 is subject to some variation, owing partly to denudation of the 

 golden scales. The abdomen in the male is also vai'iable, the 

 lateral spots often merging and forming complete basal white 

 bands. 



Genus Stegomyia, Theobald (Mono-Culicid. i. p. 283, 1901). 

 Stegomijia punctolateralis, n. sp. 



Thorax black, with dense bronzy-brown scales, unadorned except 

 for pale scaled lines laterally ; pleurse snowy white, the white extend- 

 ing on to the mesonotum as a broad white line in front of the roots of 

 the wings, and a narrower one just over the roots of the wings ; pro- 

 thoracic lobes white, separated by a black cnrced line from, the mesonotum. 

 Proboscis black, unhanded. Abdomen black, with apical white lateral 

 spots ; venter mostly white. Legs black, unhanded ; coxae and venter 

 of femora, tibiae, and to some extent the venter of the metatarsi of hind 

 legs, white. 



? . Head covered with fiat bronzy-brown scales, and a pale 

 almost white border round the eyes. Palpi, proboscis, clypeus, and 

 antennae deep black. Palpi slightly clavate, much contracted at the 

 base, apical joint minute. Thorax black, with bronzy-brown narrow- 

 curved scales, paler almost grey ones behind and at the sides forming 

 lateral pale lines, and a narrower one just over the roots of the wings ; 

 prothoracic lobes white scaled, separated from the rest of the thorax 

 by a prominent black line ; pleurfe densely white scaled ; scutellum 

 with small fiat grey scales and brown border- bristles, four to the mid 



