Genus Stegomyia 145 
when floating is nearly perpendicular. Their food consists largely 
of rotting leaves, and the rapidity with which some in my 
keeping reduced a leaf to a skeleton suggested that this might 
be one of the ways in which the beautiful skeleton leaves which 
one often meets with in this country are produced. The ideal 
breeding place for this genus * is a small hole, in a well or in a 
hollow tree, well shaded from the sun and filled with a brew of 
rotting leaves, the colour of beer. In Canara this can be had at 
any season, and I found the gloomy beds of forest streams 
swarming with them in March and April. They (the adults) 
were venomous and thirsty, and having once found me they would 
follow me out into the sunlight and refuse to be driven off.” 
Miss Ludlow informs me that a variety similar to that seen 
in fasciata, viz. luctensis, occurs in the Philippines. The base 
of the last hind tarsal has a prominent black band. 
STEGOMYIA NOTOSCRIPTA. Skuse. 
(Mono. Culicid. I., p. 286, 1901.) 
Additional localities.—Deception Bay, Queensland ; Croydon 
and Cowra, in New South Wales (Froggatt). 
Notes.—The two ?’s sent by Dr. Bancroft from Deception 
Bay bear on the labels “ Biting in jungle.” ‘* Previous to this 
date,” writes Dr. Bancroft, “I have always found this mosquito 
in the neighbourhood of dwellings.” 
The specimens were taken in June. In both the abdominal 
banding is scarcely perceptible. 
The specimens sent by Mr. Froggatt were captured in June 
and December. 
The larvae are found in fresh water butts, about houses as a 
rule. 
STEGOMYIA PERISKELATA. Giles. 
(Handbk. Gnats, 2nd ed., p. 371, 1902.) 
The following is Giles’s description :— 
Wings densely black-scaled. ‘Tarsal joints with minute basal 
yellowish bands to all the joints, the bands being specially narrow on the 
hind pair. ‘Thorax black, grounded with narrow curved golden scales, and 
numerous long black bristles. Abdomen dark brown, sooty behind, with 

* Presumably this means species. The type of the genus S. fasciata 
breeds in tubs or anywhere, and so does S. notoscripta. 
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