THREE NEW NEOTROPICAL MOSQUITOES 77 



Aedes loliota, new species. 



Female: Proboscis rather long and slender, uniform, black scaled 

 throughout. Palpi short, black scaled, the apices silver-white scaled. 

 Antennae filiform, the joints subequal, with basal whorls of sparse, rather 

 long hairs; tori dark brown. Occiput clothed with black lanceolate 

 scales, a median stripe of narrow curved yellowish silver scales ; margins 

 of eyes and a broad sublateral stripe as well as the cheeks yellowish silver 

 scaled ; some upright forked black scales well back on the nape. 



Prothoracic lobes remote dorsally, with a patch of flat bright silvery 

 scales. Mesonotum rich brown, clothed with minute curved deep brown 

 scales and with lines of larger silvery and pale golden scales disposed as 

 follows : A pair of submedian pale golden lines extending from near an- 

 terior margin to posterior third, followed by a silvery median line extend- 

 ing over antescutellar space ; a golden line at either side of antescutellar 

 space, extending forward from base to near middle of disc ; a submarginal 

 silver line extending from root of wing forward over anterior angles ; a 

 small silver spot medianly at anterior margin. Scutellum with a patch of 

 black scales on mid lobe, divided by a stripe of silver scales which are fol- 

 lowed by a tuft of pale yellow hairs; lateral lobes with some silvery 

 scales in continuation of the stripes on mesonotum. Postnotum brown, 

 nude. Pleurae brownish luteous with some small patches of silver scales. 



Abdomen subcylindrical, segments 5, 6, and 7 apicaJly expanded 

 beneath ; dorsd vestiture black, a series of large, segmental, lateral patches 

 of silver scales, segments 3 to 6 with a small, indistinct, yellowish, median 

 basal spot, the seventh segment with a small silver median basal spot ; 

 venter silver scaled with apical segmental black bands. 



Wings rather nanow, hyaline ; scales along the veins dark brown, those 

 on the costa blackish ; outstanding scales narrowly ligulate. 



Legs rather long, slender ; vestiture black and white ; knees silvery 

 white ; front tarsi with the first two joints narrowly ringed with white at 

 bases ; middle tarsi with the first three joints narrowly white-ringed at bases ; 

 hind tarsi with the first three joints broadly white-ringed at bases, the 

 fourth entirely black, the fifth entirely white. Claw formula 0.0-0.0-0.0. 



Length : Body, about 4 mm. ; wing, 3.5 mm. 



Trinidad, West Indies (F. W. Urich). 



Type : Cat. No. 1 6000, U. S. Nat. Mus. 



Four females bred from larvae in water in a hollow tree. The species 

 resembles, in most respects, Aedes albonotala Coquillett, from Santo 



