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slightly longer than the palpi. Thorax dark brown, almost 
black when denuded, with slaty reflections, indistinctly striped 
and with pale scales dotted over it ; scutellum paler towards 
the edge ; metanotum deep shiny black ; pleurae blackish. 
Abdomen dark brown, paler towards the edge, with yellow scales 
scattered over it, particularly at the pale edges, black ventrally. 
Femora and tibiae with numerous bands of black and yellowish- 
white scales, tarsi with pale bands both apical and basal. Wings 
with four black spots along the costa and with numerous small 
patches of dark scales on the veins. Hal teres testaceous at the 
base, with a pale stem and dark knob. Length, 5 mm. 
$ . Head black, with white scales on the vertex, black scales 
at the sides ; two long tufts of white hairs projecting in front ; 
antenna? brown, with white pubescence ; basal joints testaceous, 
first two joints with white scales. Proboscis brown ; palpi with 
the last three joints with a broad white apical ring, the first and 
second joints with white patches of scales above. Thorax brown, 
with slaty-grey reflections, and with scattered white and creamy 
scales ; scutellum yellowish at the sides, fuscous in the middle. 
Metanotum dusky. Abdomen fuscous, with dull yellow scales. 
Legs as in the £ . In the wings the first sub-marginal cell is 
considerably longer and narrower than the second posterior cell, 
its base nearer the base of the wing than that of the latter ; the 
posterior cross-vein more than its length from the mid cross-vein. 
Length, 5 to 6 mm. 
Habitat, N. S. Wales (Skuse and Masters) ; S. Queensland 
(Bancroft). 
Theobald describes the larva? as follows : — There are two 
curved median frontal hairs ; then two long simple ones ; and 
two lateral tufted ones, and the antenna? are serrated along one 
side, the apex with two spines and two median hairs. 
This is the common Anopheline or Spear-Mosquito, plentiful 
all the year round in Southern Queensland in forest as well as 
scrub country, and even coming into the houses. It will bite at 
any time, and possibly is the mosquito associated with malarial 
iever, in Southern Queensland, at any rate. The eggs are laid 
singly, and the larva? float horizontally on the surface oi the 
water ; they live in salt water as well as in running fresh and 
stagnant waters ; but they are to be found about habitations in 
small collections ot water, also, but not commonly. The larva? 
present many different appearances, some being quite black, whilst 
others are brown with white spots. 
This mosquito will live in confinement for about a month 
if fed on dates, and will oviposit whilst caged. 
The mosquitoes hatched from larva?, that have been starved, 
are very small in size, and it is a question whether these are not 
what Skuse, and after him, Theobald, regarded as Nyssorhynchus 
masteri. Theobald, in his description of Nyssorhynchus masteri, 
Skuse, from small specimens from Queensland, makes these 
