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clothed with flat white scales. Occiput clothed with roughened and 

 erect broad scales, those in the middle and along tne margin of the 

 eyes creamy, those at the sides and on the vertex mostly black. 



Mesonotum clothed with broad, ocher yellow, brown and creamy 

 white scales ; the yellow scales form a median stripe in front which 

 broadens out at the middle; behind and at the sides the brown scales 

 predominate ; the white scales form indistinct wavy lines and there is 

 a white patch in front of the yellow stripe. Scutellum yellow and white 

 scaled with a tuft of black scales on each lobe. Abdomen dark scaled 

 above, the segments with ill defined, median, apical patches of yellow 

 scales and lateral, white, oblique marks; venter black, marked with 

 white. 



Wing vestiture black, yellow and white intermixed, the yellow scales 

 most abundant along the costa and outwardly on the veins, the white 

 mostly disposed in spots; there is a white spot on the costa a third 

 from the base and continued irregularly across the wing veins, a small- 

 er one close to the base of the wing; two-thirds from the base is the 

 largest costal white spot, continued by white patches at the bases of the 

 cells of the second and fourth veins and by a yellow patch upon the 

 third vein; a small, white, costal spot towards the apex of the wing; 

 the apices of all the veins, except the lower branch of the fifth, are 

 white scaled and there is a white spot on the third vein in line with the 

 outer spot of the costa. 



The legs are black scaled spotted with white upon the femora, tibiae 

 and first tarsal joints; the black scales mostly show yellow at their 

 bases; the hind tarsi have the first and second joints white ringed at 

 bases and apices, the last three joints white, the third and fourth with 

 black rings close to the apices. The middle and hind femora are dis- 

 tinctly tufted at their apices, the front ones less markedly so. Claws 

 simple. Length : Body 3.5 mm., wing 3 mm. 



Localities : Samal, Bataan ; Parang, Mindanao. 



Type: Cat. No. 12,627, U. S. National Museum. 



This species much resembles Aedeomyia squamipennis Arrib. 

 but differs in many details and these differences appear to be 

 constant. In squamipennis the proboscis has a broader white 

 ring- and the spot behind it is larger and yellow while the 

 apical white ring is very narrow. In squamipennis the palpi, 

 besides the white apex, have a large yellow patch in the 

 middle. On the mesonotum the ocher-yellow scales arc dis- 

 tributed nearly over the entire surface and the white spots on 

 the wings are much smaller than in the Philippine species. 

 The male genitalia of the two species show specific differences. 



