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This is the brown mosquito, common but never plentiful 
in the vicinity of swamps and creeks on Moreton Bay : a large 
insect but smaller than Mucidus alternans, the " Scotch Grey," 
with which it is associated ; it is met with in open forest 
country, and not in scrub or jungle ; at times and often for 
long periods it is very scarce. The eggs, larva? and males have 
never been met with. Several attempts to keep them in con- 
finement with the hope that they would oviposit ended in failure ; 
they are of a wild nature and do not live long when caged. It 
is a very handsome insect under the microscope ; the wing scales 
being especially beautiful. 
FINLAYA.— -Theobald (1903). 
Head clothed with flat scales, broad curved scales and 
numerous narrow upright forked ones, and long forwardly-pro- 
jecting bristles ; the broad curved scales border the eyes, and 
form a median line ; the flat scales not so closely applied as in 
Stegomyia. Eyes with facets very large and pronounced ; 
antennae with the basal and second joint scaly, fifteen jointed 
in the ? ; palpi densely scaly, apparently four- jointed. Meso- 
thorax with narrow-curved scales ; prothoracic lobes with flat 
scales ; scutellum with flat scales and a basal row of narrow- 
curved ones. Abdomen densety clothed with flat scales, the 
apical segments with ventral scaly tufts. Legs with the femora 
with rather prominent scaly tufts ; ungues equal and simple. 
Wings spotted with light and dark scales ; scales large and 
broad, more or less pyriform in shape. 
Finlaya poicilia. — Theobald (1903). 
$ . Head black, covered at the sides and on the occiput 
with flat black scales grey at the sides, the central area with 
broad silvery grey scales and the eyes bordered with the same, 
a few upright black narrow forked scales dotted over the occiput. 
Antennae dark brown, basal joint with silvery white scales on 
the inside, the second joint densely clothed with black scales ; 
palpi prominent, deep black, with silvery white scales at the 
apex ; proboscis black, with a clear white band at the base 
of the apical half and a trace of white banding at the apex. 
Mesothorax black, with narrow-curved dull grey and white scales, 
and patches of flat, silvery white scales at the sides in front of 
the wings ; prothoracic lobes covered with flat white scales ; 
scutellum covered with flat, rather pyriform black and white 
scales on the middle lobe and with black ones on the lateral lobes, 
the base of the scutellum with silvery white narrow-curved 
scales, median lobe with four border-bristles ; pleurae blackish- 
brown to almost black, with silvery white puncta. Abdomen 
black, each segment with two median white spots, the last two 
segments mainly grey scaled ; there are also median white 
