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Skusea funerea. — Theobald (1903). 
$ . Head covered with flat black scales, with violet reflec- 
tions ; palpi, clypeus and proboscis black, palpi short, scaly 
and bristly ; antenna? dark brown, basal joint dark, nude, second 
joint testaceous at the base. Thorax black, with long curved 
hair-like bronzy scales and numerous black bristles, which are 
dense over the roots of the wings ; there are also median and 
lateral rows on the mesothorax ; scutellum dark brown, with 
narrow, pale, dull golden curved scales and numerous dark 
border bristles ; metanotum black ; pleurae black, bristly, with 
patches of white scales, three prominent. Abdomen with peculiar 
ornamentation, deep brown, banded with black and white ; 
first segment entirely deep brown, with violet reflections, second 
segment deep brown, a few white scales in the middle close to 
the base, but not basal, lateral white spots not quite basal ; 
in the third, fourth, fifth and sixth segments the bases are 
banded with darker brown, almost black, and then follows an 
irregular white band, which spreads out laterally to form distinct 
lateral white spots, seventh segment with lateral white spots only, 
apex black ; the whole abdomen shows violet reflections in some 
lights ; posterior border-bristles pale dusky brown ; venter also with 
white bands on the basal half of the segments. Legs dark brown 
to black, coxae and bases and venter of femora pale ; fore, mid 
and hind ungues equal and simple, the fore rather straighter 
than the mid ; legs rather bristly, femora somewhat enlarged. 
Wings with veins brown scaled, the upper border dark, slightly 
smoky ; fork-cells rather short ; first sub-marginal cell longer, 
but no narrower than the second posterior cell, its base a little 
nearer the base of the wing, its stem about half the length of the 
cell ; stem of the second posterior cell about as long as the cell ; 
posterior cross-vein from one to one and a-half times its own 
length distant from the mid cross-vein. Halteres with pale stem 
and fuscous knob. 
Length, 4 mm. 
Habitat : South Queensland (Bancroft) ; New Guinea (Bir6). 
This is a small very black mosquito found biting in Mrs. 
Bell's scrub at Deception Bay ; present throughout the year 
but always rather uncommon ; it oviposits in confinement ; 
the eggs are laid singly ; they are very long, narrow oval in shape, 
black with a pattern. As a rule, they were not fertile, several 
once hatched out but unfortunately, for some reason or other, 
the larvae died when a day or so old. 
URANOT^ENIA. — Arribalzaga (1889). 
Closely related to iEdes. but usually more brilliantly 
coloured and stouter in form. 
Palpi two- jointed, short in both male and female. Head 
clothed with flat scales, forked upright ones may or may not be 
present ; antenna? fourteen- jointed, pilose in the female, plumose 
