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toothed with a long tooth, the smaller with a short one nearer 
the base, hind ones equal, with a trace of a small central tooth. 
Wings with the first sub-marginal cell longer and much narrower 
than the second posterior cell, the cell about one and a-half times 
the length of the stem ; stem of second posterior cell not quite as 
long as the cell, about the same length as that of the former cell ; 
bases of the cells nearly opposite ; posterior cross-vein about 
one and a-half times its own length distant from the mid cross- 
vein. 
Length, 4.5 mm. 
This elegant insect is very common, throughout the year, 
all over Southern Queensland, New South Wales and Victoria. 
It can be told at a glance from Stegomyia fasciata, the "Tiger 
Mosquito," by its darker colour and banded proboscis, and from 
Culex vigilax by the silvery line of scales on the scutellum, and 
the banded proboscis, and also from the curious habit of con- 
tinuously lifting up and down the hindmost pair of legs ; it 
oviposits singly in small collections of water in crevices and 
hollows of trees both in scrub and forest, in flower pot saucers in 
the fernery, in water jugs in the house, in jam tins and bottles in 
the rubbish heap ; the eggs are oval, black with a silvery mesh- 
work pattern ; it lives for months in confinement, but refuses 
to oviposit, or only on rare occasions ; the eggs are laid at the 
edge of the receptacle at the water line ; it is a biting mosquito, 
but never becomes so numerous as to cause annoyance in Queens- 
land at any rate. Skuse discovered this species in Sydney, and 
said it caused a painful wound ; here its bite is scarcely felt ; 
nothing compared with that of Culex vigilax, the c< Black Bush 
Mopquito." 
MACLEAYA. — Theobald (1903). 
Head covered with flat scales over most of its surface, but 
with a median line of narrow-curved scales. Palpi short in the 
female, composed of three segments, with two basal constrictions ; 
apical segment minute, penultimate one large, sw r ollen apically 
and truncated : the ante -penultimate broad apically, becoming 
narrower and swollen again basally, two basal constrictions 
looking almost like joints. The apex of the penultimate segment 
is studded with round spots. Palpi long in the £ , longer than 
the proboscis, the two apical segments short, rather swollen, 
also the apex of the ante-penultimate ; hair tufts rudimentary. 
Thorax with narrow-curved scales ; scutellum with small flat 
scales on the median lobe, narrow-curved ones on the lateral 
lobes. 
Tli^s genus comes near Stegomyia, but differs in having 
narrow-curved scales on the centre of the head and on the lateral 
lobss of the scutellum. 
