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^4 Monograph of Culicidae. 
Scutomyia notoscripta. Skuse (1889). 
Culex notoscripta. Skuse (1889). 
Stegomyia notoscripta. Skuse—Theobald (1901). 
Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S. Wales, III., 1788 (1809), Skuse; Mono. Gulicid. I., 
286 (1901); III., 145 (1903) and IV., 198 (1907), Theobald; Anns. 
Queensland Mus., No. 8, 24 (1908), Bancroft. 
Sydney, New South Wales; Queensland; New Guinea; 
India (?).* 
Notes .—Bancroft writes that, “ This elegant insect is very 
common throughout the year all over S. Queensland, New South 
Wales and Victoria. It can be told at a glance from Stegomyia 
fasciatci , the ‘Tiger Mosquito,’ by its dark.colour and banded 
proboscis, and from Culex vigilax by the silvery line of scales on 
the scutellum (? mesonotum), and the banded proboscis, and also 
from the curious habit of continuously lifting up and down the 
hindermost pair of legs ; it oviposits singly in small collections of 
water in crevices and hollows of trees both in scrub and forest, in 
flower-pot saucers in the fernery, in water jugs in the house, in 
jam tins and bottles in the rubbish heap ; the eggs are oval, black 
with a silvery mesh-work pattern ; it lives for months in con¬ 
finement, but refuses to oviposit, or only on rare occasions; the 
eggs are laid at the edge of the receptacle at the water line; it 
is a biting mosquito, but never becomes so numerous as to cause 
annoyance in Queensland. Skuse discovered this species in 
Sydney, and said it caused a painful wound ; here its bite is 
scarcely felt.” 
Scutomyia notoscripta. Skuse. 
Sub. sp. samarensis. Ludlow (1903). 
Journ. New York Ent. Soc. XI., 138 (1903), Ludlow; Gen. Ins. Gulicid., 
19 (1905), Theobald; Journ. Phil. Sci. I., 9, 985 (1906), Banks. 
Habitat. —Philippine Islands (Ludlow); Kuranda, Queensland 
(Dr. Bancroft). 
* Giles records this from India, hut I have not seen any specimen that 
can be placed near it from there, and doubt its existence in India. 
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