LIST OF THE 
MOSQUITOES OF QUEENSLAND 
WITH THE ORIGINAL DESCRIPTIONS AND NOTES ON THE 
LIFE-HISTORY OF A NUMBER. 
By THOS. L. BANCROFT, M.B., Edin. 
The Culicidae have been studied of recent years by Fred. 
V. Theobald, M.A., and others, and a monograph of them pub- 
lished by the British Museum. 
In the monograph the characters of the family Culicidae 
are given, as follows : — 
Head small and more or less rounded, the occiput covered 
w T ith scales ; eyes reniform ; ocelli absent ; mouth in the form 
of a proboscis, which is formed of the following parts : — (1) a 
long pointed upper lip or labrum, united with an accessory 
piece, the epipharynx ; (2) a long gutter-shaped lower lip or 
labium, ending in two jointed spatulate labella, which appear 
fo be the labial palps ; (3) two narrow needle-like mandibles * 
(4) two thin maxillae, ending in serrated or barbed edges ; and 
(5) a single piece of extreme thinness, the so-caiPed hypophaxynx ; 
the whole being enclosed by the upper and lower lips. The 
palpi may be long or short, and vary in the number of joints ; 
in Culex they are short in the ? , long in the ; in Anopheles 
long in both sexes ; in iEdes short in both sexes, etc. ; the 
number of joints varies from two in ^Edes to four in Anopheles, 
and five in Megarhinus. In Anopheles the 2 plalpi are four- 
jointed, the $ three- jointed, but there exists in the base a small 
constriction, which make the ? appear five-jointed ; in the 
$ , constrictions also appear and make the palpi look six-jointed, 
but I (Theobald) prefer to look upon the ? palpi as four- jointed, 
and the $ as three- jointed, the basal joint being very much 
elongated, wmilst in Megarhinus they are five- jointed in both 
sexes. In the 2 Culex they vary from three to four (sometimes, 
owing to the constriction, five), in the $ three-jointed (five or 
six- jointed if we take the constrictions as representing articu- 
lations). The antennae are plumose in the $ , pilose in the $ , 
fourteen- jointed in the $ , fifteen- jointed in the ; the basal 
joint is globose, and may be nude or scaly ; the second joint may 
