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A Monograph of Culicidae. 
Genus MACLEAYA. Theobald (1903). 
Entomologist, XXXVI., 154 (1903); Mono. Cnlicid. IV., 203 (1907), 
Theobald; Anns. Queensland Museum, No. 8, 27 (1908), Bancroft. 
A single species only described. 
Macleaya tremula. Theobald (1903). 
Entomologist, XXXVI., 155 (1903). 
S. Queensland. 
Notes. —Dr. Bancroft says of this species :—“ This rare and 
delicate mosquito, I bred from a few larvae obtained from a well 
and also a water cask in Deception Bay; it lives well in 
confinement, and will bite when encouraged ; oviposits singly. 
The larvae are pale in colour, almost white; during one winter I 
kept some alive, and they appeared to give birth to young larvae 
(paedogenesis) on August 26th, 1903; I tried to verify this 
observation, but it did not occur in summer. One or two of 
these mosquitoes oviposited in an aquarium covered with muslin; 
in due course young larvae were noticed and these grew to 
maturity and were turning into pupae when a number of minute 
larvae were observed; the question was Were these minute 
larvae produced by the other larvae ? If they were not, they 
were from eggs which had not hatched out in the first instance,, 
and which had lain dormant about two months.” 
Type in the British Museum. 
Genus GYMNOMETOPA. Coquillett (1906). 
Proc. Ent. Soc. Wash., VII., No. 4, 183 (1906), Coquillett; Mono. 
Culicid. IV., 209 (1907), Theobald. 
I have not re-examined the type of this genus ( sexlineata ) 
and so leave it where Coquillett places it. 
I know of no new additions since Vol. IV., and the species 
tabulate as follows :— 
1. Upper side of thorax brown scaled and with 6 
narrow lines of pale yellow scales extending 
the entire length of the thorax; last two 
segments of the hind feet black..... sexlineata. Theobald- 
Upper side of thorax not so marked....... 2 
