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remainder dark brown ; clypeus dark brown ; palpi long, the 
apical joint mamilliform, the penultimate moderately long, 
ante-penultimate a little longer than the penultimate, second 
about as long as the penultimate, rather enlarged ; when denuded, 
testaceous ; covered with ochraceous and brown scales, allowing 
the testaceous ground colour to show through ; apex with very 
dark brown scales, all the joints with dark bristles. Thorax 
deep blackish-brown, with broad lines of narrow-curved very 
pale golden-grey scales and four broad lines of similar bronzy- 
black scales, with brown bristles, which are more or less golden 
over the roots of the wings, a bare space in front of the scutellum ; 
scutellum deep brown, with pale golden-grey, narrow-curved 
scales, rather dense on the mid lobe, with numerous rich golden- 
brown border-bristles ; metanotum deep bright brown ; pleurae 
deep brown, densely covered with flat greyish- white scales, 
Abdomen deep brown, the segments mostly covered with pale 
ochraceous and grey scales, with some dark ones on the middle 
of the anterior segments, giving a banded appearance ; there are 
also a few white lateral ones ; basal on some, median on other 
segments ; venter with pale ochraceous scales, with black-scaled 
apical borders, the black scales appearing as black apical patches 
at the sides when viewed dorsally ; posterior border-bristles 
short. Legs brown, ochraceous at the base, and the metatarsi 
and tarsi basally pale banded, the fore and mid metatarsi with 
only narrow apical black bands, the tarsi small and with narrow 
basal pale bands, the pale bands decreasing in size from the first 
to the last tarsal joint ; hind legs with the banding more distinct ; 
all the joints more or less bristly ; fore, mid and hind ungues 
equal, large, uniserrated. Wings with typical deep yellowish- 
brown Culex scales, the scales on the base of the veins ochraceous 
and brown ; fork-cells very short ; first sub-marginal cell longer 
and about half the width of the second posterior cell, which is 
very short and broad, its stem equal to nearly two-thirds the 
length of the cell ; stem of the second posterior as long as the cell ; 
posterior cross-vein not quite its own length distant from the 
mid cross-vein ; fringe brown, with rather long dark border- 
scales ; the costal border somewhat yellowish, and the scales of 
the sub -costal very pale yellow ; there is a tinge of brown on the 
wing field at the cross- veins. Hal teres ochraceous-brown, 
slightly dusky at the knob. 
Length, 6 mm. 
Found along the seaboard from Port Denison to Gosford in 
N.S.W. It is a biting mosquito, plentiful at times only ; it is 
recognizable at a glance by the yellowish colour and black marks 
on the thorax. The males have not been found. Attempts 
have been repeatedly made to obtain eggs ; these mosquitoes, 
although of a wild nature, will live a few days in confinement, 
and will oviposit ; the eggs are laid singly ; they are black, 
thick set, oval in shape, studded with papillse ; for the most 
