706 Mr. F. H. Taylor on the Culicidae of Australia. 
two to four with their lateral margins covered with coppery brown 
scales, fifth with coppery brown basal banding, sixth and seventh 
segments clothed with coppery brown scales, apical segment with 
a few pale scales, posterior border bristles pale yellow; venter 
clothed with white and creamy scales. 
Legs with the femora and tibiae blackish brown above, yellowish 
brown beneath, first two tarsals of the fore and mid legs brown 
scaled, pale beneath, third, fourth and fifth creamy, tarsi one to 
three of hind legs brown scaled, pale beneath with the apex of the 
third creamy, fourth and fifth creamy; ungues of fore and mid legs 
unequal, hind equal, sickle-shaped. 
Wings with the costa, subcostal and first longitudinal veins 
clothed with dark brown flat scales, rest of the veins clothed with 
grey scales; first fork-cell much shorter and narrower than the 
second, stem of the former nearly twice the length of the cell, stem 
of the latter about two-thirds the length of its cell; anterior basal 
cross-vein slightly longer than the anterior cross-vein and once and 
two-thirds its own length from it. Halteres with creamy stem and 
black knob. 
Length 2 mm. 
Q. Similar to 3; antennae brown, basal half of the second segment 
creamy, verticillate hairs brown; palpi brown, clothed with black 
scales and a few dark hairs; proboscis brown; wings similar to ¢ 
with the median scales on the second and fifth veins brown in 
addition to the costa, subcostal and first longitudinal veins, the 
apical two-thirds of the costa is spiny in both sexes; fringe pale 
brown; the marginal cell is very narrow and the middle third of 
the second sub-marginal cell is very broad in both sexes. 
Length 2°5 mm. (viz). 
Habitat. QUEENSLAND, Townsville. 
Date of Capture. Bred from larvae 21/7/1912; adults 
taken 31/3/1913 (Ff. H. Taylor). 
Observations. A very conspicuous species on account 
of its abdominal markings, and easily separated from 
U. pygmaea, Theob., by its abdominal markings and 
squamose character of the wings and legs. Adults were 
found in kerosene tins and water-butts during a mosquito 
survey of a portion of Townsville, it also breeds in clear, 
shallow, grassy pools of water. 
Larval characters. 
Length 3°5 mm. to apex of eighth segment, length of its siphon 
-5 mm., tapering very slightly towards its apex. 
