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own length distant from the mid or a little less ; the supernu- 
merary cross-vein is longer than the mid, but not quite so long 
as the posterior cross-vein. Halteres with ochraceous stems 
and fuscous knobs with a few grey scales. 
Length, 4 mm. 
£ . Head all black scaled, with the lateral pale areas only. 
Thorax and abdomen as in the 2 . Palpi rather longer than 
the proboscis, very thin, black, no hair-tufts, resembling those of 
Desvoidea. Apical segment of palpi slightly shorter than the 
penultimate segment. Wings long, fork-cells short, first sub- 
marginal cell longer and narrower than the second posterior 
cell, its base slightly nearer the apex of the wing than that of 
the second posterior, its stem as long as the cell ; stem of the 
second posterior longer than the cell ; supernumerary and mid 
cross-veins almost in one straight line, the posterior about its 
own length distant from the mid. Legs as in the ? ; fore ungues 
unequal, the larger nearly twice as long as the smaller, both 
uniserrated, the serration of the smaller close to the base ; mid 
ungues equal and uniserrated ; hind equal and simple. 
Length, 4 to 4.5 mm. 
This insect is never plentiful, but has a wide range in South 
Queensland ; it is a biting mosquito, and at first sight mistaken 
for Culex annulirostris, but on closer inspection the yellowish 
band on the thorax is noticed, and the unhanded proboscis ; 
under the microscope it is seen not to be Culex. I secured males, 
from breeding out a mixed lot of larvae obtained from a cask, 
placed in a small scrub on Deception Bay. 
Eggs and larvae not observed. 
SCUTOMYIA.— Theobald (1904). 
Head covered with flat scales except in the mid region, 
where there are narrow-curved scales forming a median row. 
Scutellum entirely clothed with flat scales. Other characters 
as in Macleaya. This genus differs from Stegomyia in having 
narrow-curved scales on the head, and from Macleaya in having 
the scutellum with all flat scales. From Leicesteria it differs 
in having all flat scales on the scutellum. 
SCUTOMYIA NOTOSCBIPTA. — Skltse (1888). 
$ . Head black, with black scales some upright forked ones ; 
a patch of yellowish- white scales in the middle behind, and a 
silvery-white border to the eyes ; bristles black ; antenna? black, 
with pale pubescence and black verticillate hairs ; palpi black 
scaled, with the apex pure silver-white ; proboscis black, with a 
pure silvery- white band in the middle, slightly testaceous at the 
base ; mesothorax deep umber-brown to almost black, with 
numerous bronzy-black flat spindle-shaped scales (under a hand 
lens it looks velvety umber-brown) ; there is a narrow median 
silvery-white line, which expands round the bare patch in front 
