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Thorax dark brown and rather closely covered with small slender dark brown 

 curved scales : scutellum dark brown : nietanotum dark brown ; pleurae brown with 

 three bunches of white scales. 



Abdomen brown, heavily covered with dark brown scales giving dark green and 

 blue iridescence, small white lateral spots on most of the segments : venter dark. 



Legs dark brown, the femoraTlight on ventral side, otherwise the whole of the 

 leg IS dark, but the scales are so iridescent, those of the femora and tibia; reflecting 

 green and blue lights, and those on metatarsi and tarsal joints giving bronze lights 

 that the latcer often appear much lighter. Ungues equal and simple. 



Wings heavily brown scaled with typical Stegouiyia scales : first submarginal cell 

 a little longer and about the same width as the second posterior, its base slightly in- 

 terior to the latter' s. The supernumerary cross-vein meets the mid at an obtuse angle 

 and is about the same length as the mid, as is also the posterior cross-vein, which is 

 distant from the mid about three times its'own length. Halteres heavily light scaled 

 on the stem, knob dark. 



Length 3-3.5 mm. 



Habitat : Oras, Samar. Tacloban, Leyte. Twin Peaks, Banquet. 

 Luzon. 



Caught. June-December. 



This is a very small dark species near S. mimita Theob. and was 

 sent me by Dr. Roger P. Ames, Major, Surgeon U. S. V., who did the 

 clinical work in the investigation by Major Reed, Surgeon U. S. A., 

 concerning mosquitoes and "yellow fever." 



The Stegomyia are wide-spread throughout the Islands, S. fasciata 

 Fabr being apparently present in every locality, and very numerous. 

 The others are not so frequently met, and ^. nivea has been taken 

 only at Oras, Samar. 



DesvoidetE. (Armigeres.) 



Desvoidea fusca Theob. 



Taken, so far, only in the southern islands. 



In the last few months a new genus near Stegomyia has been 

 created, the distinctive differences lying mostly in the head and wing 

 scales, by which, as well as by the lack of the continuation of the 

 third longitudinal vein, it is also separated from Desvoidea. 



Finlaya Theobald. 



Finlaya poicilia Theobald. 



This mosquito is also confined to the southern islands. 

 Another species has come in in the last i&w days which is appar- 

 ently undescribed, but there has not been sufficient time to make the 



