MOSQUITO NOTES — II. 77 



Aedes (Skusea) punctipes, sp. nov. 



O. Head entirel}^ clothed with rather close-lying, Hat blunt-ended scales ; on the 

 upper surface three black patches alternate with four white ones, black scales occurring 

 again low down at the sides. Eyes separated by a rather narrow white-scaled line. 

 Proboscis dark-scaled, not swollen at the tip, equal in length to the front femora. 

 Palpi dark-scaled, rather more than a quarter as long as the proboscis. Antennae 

 missing. Thorax : Prothoracic lobes and pro-epimera with rather broad white scales ; 

 mesonotum with narrow curved white scales round the front margin, narrow light 

 bronzy-brown scales rather densely covering the rest of the surface ; these scales are 

 somewhat broader and denser on the posterior portion of the mesonotum, while on the 

 space in front of the scutellum, which is normally bare, as well as on the scutellum 

 itself, are broad flat blackish-brown scales ; a small patch of similar scales above the 

 root of each wing. Postnotum bare. Pleurae with patches of flat white scales. Meso- 

 notal bristles mostly denuded, probably rather long and dense. Abdomen brown- 

 scaled above, except the first tergite, which has creamy scales ; tergites 2-7 have 

 lateral white spots, which are not quite basal in position and extend a short way on to 

 the dorsal surface. Venter mostly pale, apical sternites dark-scaled apically. The 

 eighth segment and cerci are not visible externally ; sixth and seventh sternites 

 prominent in side view. Legs mostly brown-scaled ; femora lighter beneath, and with 

 a distinct whitish preapical ring ; extreme tips of femora and tibiae also whitish. 

 Front tibiae with three, middle and hind tibiae with four smafl, but distinct, whitish 

 spots on the anterior surface. First joint of ah tarsi with a narrow white ring at the 

 base ; junction of first and second joints with a smafl white dorsal spot ; first mid- 

 tarsal joint also with a median dorsal white spot, which on the hind legs becomes a 

 complete narrow white ring ; second hind tarsal joint narrowly white at the tip. 

 Tibial bristles short, pale. Mid and hind tibiae equal in length. First tarsal joint 

 on front legs about half as long as the tibia, and distinctly shorter than the remaining 

 joints together ; on hind legs about two-thirds as long as the tibia. Claws simple. 

 Wings brown-scaled, except for the base of the fifth longitudinal vein, which is white. 

 Scales all rather long and broad, mostly obliquely truncate at the tips ; only a few 

 longer and narrower ones towards the tips of the veins and along the lower margin of 

 the upper branch of the fifth vein. Wing-fringe very long. Upper fork-cell fully 

 twice as long as its stem, and with its base nearer the base of the wing than that 

 of the lower. 



Upper Burma : Maymyo, xi-xii.l913 {Major Bennett), 1 $. 



Type in the Indian Museum. 



A very distinct species, easily recognised by the leg markings and thoracic scaling. 

 The structure of the abdomen and claws shows that it is quite closely related to 

 Stegomyia periskeleta, Giles {=Ochlerotatus annulifemur, Edw.), and 5. microptera, 

 Giles. Both these species have male palpi of the Ochlerotatus rather than of the 

 Stegomyia type, and, on the other hand, show some relation to Armigeres in the 

 structure of the mesosome of the aedeagus. The type species of Sktisea (5. pembaensis, 

 Theo.), though with very dissimflar hypopygium, agrees with these Oriental species 

 in general appearance and in the structure of the male palpi and female abdomen and 

 claws, and all four are probably best relegated to the same genus or subgenus of the 

 Aedes group. The new species, like its ally S. microptera, may be expected to be a 

 tree-breeder. It is in such habitats that the species showing the most striking varia- 

 tions from the normal type of Aedine structure are found, sometimes, as in the present 

 instance, indicating connections with other groups. 



Culex crinicauda, nom. nov. 



Culex parvus, Taylor, Bull. N. Terr. Austral., la, p. 27 (1912) ; nee Culex parvus, 

 Macquart. 



Although my suggestion that this might be synonymous with C. vishuni, Theo., 

 was adopted by Taylor, such is, nevertheless, not the case. The hypopygium of a 



