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Aedes grahami, new species. 



Female : Head brown covered with small curved, forked 

 and flat scales ; a median stripe of white curved scales, long 

 slender scales at the vertex and white forked scales on the 

 occiput broadening so as to form a triangular spot, base 

 caudad ; immediately laterad is a stripe of golden, or golden 

 brown curved scales, forked scales of the same brilliant color 

 at the occiput, flat brilliant brownish scales at the sides, brown 

 forked scales extending well around to the sides ; antennae 

 brown, the proximal joints lighter than the more distal, basal 

 joint a chestnut brown with a thick crown of flat white scales, 

 on the median and dorsal aspect the base of the second joint 

 pruinose with a few dark flat scales, verticels short, rather 

 scanty, dark, pubescence white ; proboscis dark, covered with 

 dark and white scales scattered throughout, the base and apical 

 fourth darker, having very few white scales, labellse dark ; 

 palpi dark, covered with dark and white scales intermixed, 

 and a few brown bristles ; clypeus dark brown, pruinose ; eyes 

 brown to reddish. 



Thorax: prothoracic lobes well separated, covered with 

 small slender golden, and broad white curved scales, and 

 many dark bristles ; mesonotum dark brown closely covered 

 with golden and silver-grey small curved scales arranged in 

 definite pattern. There are of the golden scales a broad 

 median stripe beginning near the nape, gradually narrowing 

 and extending to and on the "bare space," two short narrow 

 stripes, beginning about one-third caudad of the nape, appar- 

 ently branching from the broader stripe, but running parallel 

 to it, and extending nearly to the "bare space," and laterad 

 of these a broad somewhat clublike stripe on either side 

 beginning about the middle of the mesonotum and ex- 

 tending to the scutellum. The shoulders and lateral margins 

 are covered with brilliant brownish scales, and the rest of the 

 mesonotum is covered with the small silvery grey curved 

 scales, which grow larger near the scutellum, and a bunch of 

 these larger grey scales occurs across the mesonotum at the 

 nape. Here are two short denuded places suggesting the 



