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dinal area of brown internally at apex; all tibiz: dark-seal-brown with red- 
- brown bristles; posterior tibia with an external, elongated patch of cream 
scales its own length from apex; metatarsi all brown, the posterior having 
an elongated sagittate white mark at underside of base; all tarsi uni- 
formly seal-brown; ungues of fore and mid legs equal and unidentate, 
those of hind legs simple and equal. All brown areas appear blue-black . 
in certain lights. 
Wings with very heavily dark-scaled costa; other veins normal; first 
submarginal slightly longer and narrower than second posterior, their 
respective stems equaling the forks in length; posterior cross vein 24 
times its length from mid cross vein, than which it is } longer; supernu- 
merary at an angle of about 135° to mid cross vein. Second long vein 
makes a very sharp angle at its juncture with first so that it is parallel at 
this part with supernumerary. The incrassation posterior to Vein V 
(Austen’s Vein VI) is very strongly developed, a character not so marked 
in other Stegomyiw and therefore, with other features, making the posi- 
tion of this species uncertain to me. 
Nearos OccwwEentAaL, P. I., Canlaon Volcano, Mt. Siya-Siya, at alti- 
tude of 760 meters. 
Time of capture, 24 June, 1906. 
Type, 2, No. 6082 in Entomological Collection, Bureau of Science, 
Manila, P. I. 
This interesting mosquito, collected only at a high altitude on a rainy 
day, attacks very readily, all the specimens obtained having been caught 
upon the bare legs of the native carriers. No males were taken, although 
search of the undergrowth was made. 
T am at a loss to know whether to place it with the Stegomyw or to 
erect for it a new genus, it having a bare clypeus, no banding upon the 
tarsi, the incrassate vein well developed and quite removed from Vein V, 
and being brown and gold, while most or all Stegomyia are black and 
white, with occasionally some suggestion of yellow or gold. Owing to its 
cephalic mesonotal-and scutellar characters it should surely be placed 
in Stegomyie, but then again it has 5-jointed palpi. I hope that the 
obtaining of males may help to clear up the doubt if it can be done in 
no other way. A large number of specimens were obtained, all quite 
uniform in size and markings. 
STEGOMYIA FASCIATA PERSISTANS, subsp. nov. 
Black and dark seal-brown with white and golden-white markings, legs 
banded white, nearly as in S. fasciata Fabr. 
?, head with broad, seal-brown scales, a bare, median occipital sulcus 
bordered laterally by white scales which unite anteriorly and project 
between eyes, which are bordered by narrow, white scales; a series of 
brown bristles project inward and forward over eyes; sides of head 
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