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towards the tip ; antennae banded brown and white, with yellow- 
ish-brown verticils. Thorax bright testaceous, with long bristles, 
dark in some lights, yellowish in others. Abdomen similar to 
female, but the apex and genitalia deep brown. Legs as in 
but the femora are darker. Wings rather paler. 
Length, 5 to 5.5 mm. 
" The Golden Mosquito," a biting species, coming into 
the house, common at times of the year only (January, February, 
March), but never plentiful ; absent for long periods at a time ; 
this mosquito was rarely seen at Burpengary ; its breeding 
place has not been ascertained ; it will live in confinement and 
will oviposit ; the eggs are laid in a boat-shaped raft like those 
of Culex fatigans ; a number once hatched out, but, unfortun- 
ately, the larvae died when three days old from some unknown 
cause, from possibly the water getting too cold during the night. 
I tried salt water, but no eggs hatched out. 
Theobald now proposes to place Taeniorhynchus acer, in 
Goeldi's new genus Chrysoconops. 
CHRYSOCONOPS.— Goeldi (1905). 
The head, thorax and abdomen scaled as in Culex. Colours 
golden-yellow and metallic violet. Large species. Male palpi 
long, acuminate, dense hair-tufts. Male genitalia with short 
basal lobes and broad claspers with short acuminate terminal 
segment, harpogones stout and curved with thick spines. The 
wing scales dense and Taeniorhynchus-like, but the majority 
end asymmetrically. 
MANS ONI A. — Blanch ard (1901). 
Palpi short in the long in the <?, in the latter with hair 
tufts, four- jointed in the $ and <j ; in the $ the first joint is 
small, the third long, the fourth small and nipple-like. Head 
clothed with narrow-curved and long upright forked scales ; 
thorax with thin hair-like curved scales and numerous bristles ; 
scutellum with similar squamae ; abdomen with flat scales 
with very convex apices. The abdomen of the $ is usually 
blunt, and the penultimate segment may have a row of short 
thick spines. Wings densely scaled along the veins with broad 
asymmetrical flat scales on each side of the veins only, no 
median scales, and also in some cases with long lateral clavate 
scales ; fork of the second posterior cell usually nearer the base 
of the wing than that of the first sub-marginal cell. Legs 
usually more or less mottled and banded with white ; ungues 
of the $ equal and simple, of the $ unequal, the larger one 
toothed, the smaller simple. 
Mansonia uniformis. — Theobald (1901), 
$. Head purplish-brown, with curved white scales and 
black upright forked ones, slightly ochraceous at the sides ; 
eyes purple and white, with a border of white scales ; antennae 
