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legs unequal, the larger one toothed with a long tooth, the 
smaller with a short one nearer the base, hind ones equal, 
with a trace of a small central tooth. 
Wings with the first sub-marginal cell longer and much 
narrower than the second posterior cell, the cell about one and 
a half times the length of the 
stem ; stem of second posterior 
cell not quite as long as the 
cell, about the same length as 
that of the former cell; bases 
of the cells nearly opposite ; 
posterior cross-vein about one 
and a half times its own length 
distant from the mid cross-vein. 
Length .—4 * 5 mm. 
Habitat .—Queensland (Dr. 
Bancroft) ; Adelaide, New 
South Wales, generally dis¬ 
tributed (Masters and Skuse). 
Time of appearance. —July, 
in Queensland (Bancroft) • 
October, in Adelaide; in New 
South Wales, Skuse savs from 
September to January. 
Observations .—A very distinct species, easily identified by its 
thoracic ornamentation and banded proboscis. A widely dis¬ 
tributed mosquito in Australia, which causes a very painful 
wound. According to Skuse, it occasionally comes into the house 
in the daytime. 
The larvae are said by Skuse to swarm in water-butts and 
garden tanks from December to March. In the hot weather the 
larvae are hatched from the boat-like mass of (nearly three 
hundred) eggs in about twenty-four hours, and the perfect 
insects emerge in from three weeks to a month. 
A small variety exists in the Blue Mountains, New South 
Wales (Skuse). The specimens from Adelaide are larger than 
those from Queensland sent by Dr. Bancroft. The New South 
Wales specimens seem slightly the largest, but as in many 
Culicidae there is considerable variation in size. 
The “ egg rafts r> occur in this species, and thus it forms an 
exception to the rule in Stegomyia. 
Fig. 85. 
Stegomyia notoscripta, Skuse. 
a, Wing scales ; and $' and S ungues. 
