94 Ths Canadian entomologist. 



MOSQUITO NOTES.— No. 3. 



BY C. S. LUDLOW, M. SC, / 



LaboialiM y o( llic Ofticc o( lliu Smgcoii GciK-ral, U. S. A., ^'asliingtiiii, D. C. 



In a very interesting collection of mosquitoo^ latel)' sent me from 

 the Philippine Islands by Dr. Eugene R. Whitipfore, ist Lt. Asst. Surg. 

 U. S. A., occur a couple of forms which seern^i^ntitled to position as new 

 genera, and some others of merely specific int,^rest, The new genera are 

 separated, in the first instance by a coml^nation of values that makes 

 it seem secure, while in the second cas/ it lies between Finlaya and 

 Macleaya, and the differences are not so .liiarked. 



Reedomyia, nov. gen. — Head coyfered with slender curved scales, 

 forked scales on the occiput, and flat lateral ones, as in Culex ; palpi two 

 jointed in the female ; thorax clothed with curved scales ; scutellum with 

 broad flat scales only ; metanotum ;lude ; fork cells of wing short. 



The genus is named after Major Walter Reed, Surgeon U. S. A., 

 whose invaluable work in ^^xov'xwgStegomyia fasciata, F'ab., the intermedi- 

 ate host in the transmission of "yellow fever" is too well known to need 

 more than mention. 



Reedomyia Pampangetfsis, n. sp. — ? . Head densely covered with 

 slender curved scales an^ flat lateral ones ; a brown triangular (base 

 caudad) median spot bq^dered by a white stripe, followed laterally by 

 brown scales and the^ by lateral white flat scales, no tuft of scales 

 between the eyes, but .hiany bristles around the eyes, and a border of 

 curved light-yellow scales around the eyes, fork scales numerous 

 and extending well up on the vertex ; antennae brown, verticels and 

 pubescence brown, basal joint light brown and partly brown scaled, first 

 joint has a few brown scales ; palpi brown, somewhat constricted at base 

 of ultimate joint ; proboscis brown dorsally, and fawn coloured ventrally to 

 about three-quarters its length, apical quarter dark, tip brown ; eyes 

 brown \ ciypeus brown. 



Thorax when viewed directly from above is of general reddish brown 

 colour and darker in other lights ; prothoracic lobes testaceous with white 

 slender curved scales and dark brown bristles. In these specimens, as in 

 some others lately received, these lobes appear to be stalked, the stalks 

 running in a curve up the cephalic aspect of the thorax, and the "lobes" 

 on t^e dorsal end as a cap, reminding one somewhat of a "mushroom." 

 Mesonotum is a light reddish brown with light yellow and dark brown 

 slender curved scales rather indefinitely arranged— an indefinite white 



March, 1905. 



