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Length, 3 mm. 
Time of capture : November. 
Habitat : South Queensland. 
I found this mosquito in Harris's scrub at Burpengary ; 
biting ; the larva? have not been met with ; it is a perfect 
mystery where some mosquitoes breed ; it may not be in water 
at all ; possibly in damp soil, or in rotten wet wood. 
Mosquito larva? have been found by Mr. E. E. Green, in 
the flowers of Heliconia brasiliensis ; hy Dr. Leicester in Bam- 
boos, the female mosquito having entered through the holes 
made by boring insects. They have been observed also in Pitcher 
Plants, Bromelias, etc. D. W. Coquillett says Dendromyia 
smithii breeds in the leaves of Orchidaceous plants growing on 
trees. Dr. Low found the larva? of Deinocerites cancer in crab- 
holes. 
Culex burpengaryensis. — Theobald (1905). 
£ . Head deep brown, clothed with long narrow-curved pale 
golden scales and flat yellowish ones laterally, the upright forked 
scales ochreous ; palpi and proboscis brown ; clypeus bright 
brown, with a median sulcus and a blunt process on each side 
towards the base ; the palpi are clothed with almost black scales 
and bristles, the apical segment minute, the penultimate long. 
Antenna? brown, basal segments bright testaceous. Eyes black 
and silvery . Thorax deep brownish-black, clothed with irregularly 
disposed golden narrow-curved scales except on two median 
parallel lines, which show as two dark lines on the golden-scaled 
mesonotum, and which are ornamented with the narrow-curved 
bronzy-black scales, a few of these also occur over the roots of 
the wings ; bristles partly black, partly golden. Scutellum 
ochreous brown, with pale golden narrow-curved scales, the mid 
lobe with deep brown and golden border-bristles, the lateral with 
deep brown ones only ; metanotum brown and testaceous ; 
pleura? testaceous and brown, with flat creamy scales. Abdomen 
deep brown in some lights, with violet reflections in others, the 
segments with basal lateral creamy patches, the basal 
segment testaceous with two patches of dark scales ; posterior 
border-bristles bright reddish-brown. Venter with yellowish 
basal bands. Legs brown with metallic violet and coppery 
hues, base and under side of femora ochreous ; fore and mid 
ungues equal, uniserrated, thick, hind equal and simple, straighter 
than the others. Wings with short fork-cells, first sub-marginal 
a little longer and narrower than the second posterior, their bases 
nearly level, its stem not quite so long as the cell, stem of the 
second posterior as long as the cell, posterior cross-vein about 
its own length distant from the mid, which is longer than the 
posterior ; scales brown. Halteres with pale stem, fuscous 
knob with creamy scales. 
Length, 5.2 to 5.5 mm. 
