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Time of capture, 7 May, 1905, in early morning, the majority of the 
specimens, all of which are females, being gorged with blood. 
Type ?, No. 3290 in Entomological Collection, Bureau of Science, 
Manila, P. I. 
This mosquito bears a strong superficial resemblance to M. ludlowit 
Theob., except that it is very much smaller and there is a very decided 
difference in the spotting of the wings. 
The species is named from a tribe of semi-civilized peoples inhabiting 
the interior of Mindoro and known as the Mangyanes. 
PYRETOPHORUS FREERA,, sp. nov. 
Small, dark-grey, with light-grey, lanceolate thoracic scales, and golden, 
hair-like abdominal scales ; fore and mid legs with banded tarsi; posterior 
tarsi snow-white; palpi dark-brown, white tipped and narrowly white 
banded before apex; a few white hairs at middle of palpi; frontal tuft 
white and nearly as long as head; antenne pale-brown, with white hairs. 
?, length 3.25 millimeters; length of wing 2.75 millimeters; length of 
proboscis 1.5 millimeters; dark-grey; head with posterior black and 
anterior white, upright, forked scales; several incurving, black bristles 
posterior to eyes on sides of head; frontal tuft of pure-white, recurved 
bristles, nearly as long as head; eyes black; antenne pale-brown with 
whorls of snow-white bristles and fine, silvery pubescence; palpi equal 
in length to proboscis, densely black scaled, those basally being semi-erect ; 
a small tuft of 3 or 4 silvery scales at middle dorsally; apex broadly 
silver-tipped with few scattered brown scales; a narrow, silver band 
before apex, separated from apical white by a broad black area equal in 
length to white apex; proboscis entirely dark-brown, tipped with golden 
scales at apex. 
Prothoracic lobes dark-grey with few, white, flat scales; mesonotum 
dark-grey with indistinct, longitudinal, darker areas; median region 
clothed with very pale-golden, bluntly lanceolate, flat scales; external to 
this region the notum is comparatively bare; plure sparsely white-scaled ; 
metanotum dark-brown, nude; scutellum with white scales on all lobes. 
Abdomen dark-brown-grey, clothed with pale-golden hair-like scales 
more abundant toward posterior extremity; lamellae with dark-brown, 
flat, somewhat truncated scales and a few, long, golden bristles; under 
surface sparsely clad with white hairs. . 
Halteres white, black-knobbed. 
Legs pale to dark, golden-brown, banded and white-tipped; anterior 
femora, dark basally, much lighter apically, with a dark spot before knee; 
mid femora light basally, dark apically with an external white spot before 
knee; and an internal, longitudinal, pale line; posterior femora uni- 
formly dark-brown above and externally, lighter brown-golden inter- 
nally and basally; all tibia uniformly dark-brown above, the mid and 
posterior ones having an external, paler, longitudinal line for their entire 
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