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Length, 5.5 mm. 
/ This is rather a rare species in the vicinity of Brisbane at 
any rate ; it is a biting mosquito, produces a shrill note altogether 
different from the hum of other mosquitoes. When resting 
the hind legs are cocked up and bent forwards. It oviposits 
in a long narrow raft, jet black in colour and very like that of 
Culex tigripes ; the larva? are found occasionally in water-butts 
and tanks ; in appearance and habit they resemble those of 
Stegomyia fasciata and Scutomyia notoscripta, feeding and 
spending most of their time at the bottom, in contradistinction 
to Culex larva?, which live for the greater portion of their life 
on the surface. They are grey in colour, with black bristles ; 
have a brown head, black anal joint, and short black respiratory 
siphon. 
PSEUDOSKUSEA.— Theobald (1907). 
Head with flat scales ; palpi short in $ , long in $ , very 
thin, no hair tufts, resembling Desvoidea. Scutellum with narrow- 
curved scales. Mid ungues of male equal in size ; a character 
found only in the genus. 
Pseudoskusea multiplex. — Theobald (1903). 
2 . Head covered with flat scales of a deep brown to black 
colour with violet reflections, ochraceous in the middle, at the 
sides and around the eyes, and with numerous black upright 
forked scales behind ; clypeus, palpi and proboscis black ; 
antennae deep brown, basal joint and base of the second 
joint testaceous. Thorax deep testaceous brown, covered with 
hair-like curved bronzy black scales, a more or less irregular 
band of narrow curved creamy to ochraceous ones running 
across the mesonotum ; in some lights the scales, except the pale 
ones, appear quite black ; scutellum deep brown, testaceous at 
the base, with hair-like black and narrow-curved creamy scales, 
six large black posterior border-bristles to the mid-lobe ; meta- 
notum testaceous brown ; pleura? shiny brown, with a few pale 
scales and golden bristles. Abdomen black, covered with black 
scales with violet reflections, posterior border-hairs pale, giving 
a quasi-banded appearance in some specimens, and with white 
basal lateral spots, venter with basal pale, almost white bands. 
Legs dark brown, almost black, unhanded ; coxa? pale, also the 
base and venter of the femora ; fore and mid ungues rather 
small, equal and uniserrated, the teeth very small ; femora, 
tibia? and metatarsi with a few spines ; femora rather swollen. 
Wings with the fork-^ells rather short and with brown scaled 
veins. First sub-marginal cell longer and narrower than the 
second posterior cell, its base slightly nearer the base of the 
wing than the base of the latter, its stem a little more than half 
the length of the cell ; stem of the second posterior not quite as 
long as the cell ; cross- veins rather pale, the posterior about its 
