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lateral spots ; the apical segments with three prominent ventral 
tufts of black scales. Legs black, the femora with five snow- 
white bands, the tibiae with six similar bands, metatarsi apically 
and basally white banded and with a median white band ; the 
first fore tarsus apically white, next two black, last pure white ; 
in the mid legs the same ; in the hind legs two tarsi with white 
bands, the last pure white ; ungues small, equal and simple. 
Wings clothed with large, broad, pyriform, black and white 
scales, the costal with two small apical, then two large and then 
another small white spot ; the veins mostly covered with black 
scales, but with white areas as follows : At the base of the fork 
cells, small areas on their branches, four on the third long vein ; 
two on the upper, two on the lower branch of the fifth, and three 
on the stem, the basal portion being white ; four small white 
areas on the sixth ; fringe black, with white spots where the 
veins join the border ; border-scales all black ; first sub-marginal 
cell a little longer, but about the same width as the second 
posterior cell ; bases of the two fork-cells about level, stem of 
the first sub -marginal not quite as long as the cell, stem of the 
second posterior as long as the cell ; posterior cross-vein nearly 
four times its own length distant from the mid cross- vein. 
Hal teres black. 
Length, 4.5 mm. 
Habitat : Penang (Freer) ; The Johnstone River, North 
Queensland (A. Owen Jones and Edgar H. Webb) ; Kedron 
Brook, S. Queensland (Bancroft) ; New Guinea (Biro). 
This is a small biting mosquito common at the Johnstone 
River ; rare in the vicinity of Brisbane. It can be told at sight 
by the banded legs and proboscis and variegated wings ; the 
only mosquito it resembles are starved specimens of Scutomyia 
notoscripta, with which it is associated in scrubs. 
Nothing is at present known of the life-history. 
SKUSEA.— Theobald (1903). 
Head with flat scales all over ; scutellar scales narrow and 
curved. Metanotum nude. Branches of the first sub-marginal 
cell with denser scales than the rest of the veins, thick, like 
those of Verrallina, also those on the branches of the second 
fork-cell and its stem ; scales on the basal areas of the veins 
thick. Palpi of the $ three- jointed, longer than in Verrallina. 
Scutellum with six border-bristles to the mid lobe. Male palpi 
short composed of three segments, the apical one small and nipple- 
like. The second segment of the antenna? slightly swollen, 
plumose. Genitalia with short, thick, blunt claspers ; basal 
lobes broad and short, a large median semi-circular process 
between them at the base and two sword-like harpes, curved 
at the base. 
