1911] Ludlow — PhiUppine Mosquitoes 129 



scales at the laterocephalic angles, and the remains of a white median line of the 

 same brilliant scales. This line is perfectly shown as a short line on the cephalad 

 portion and on a spot midway of its length, the rest of the median portion of the 

 mesonotum denuded; scutellum has a very large mid lobe, with brilliant white 

 round-ended flat scales, and brown flat scales on the lateral lobes; pleura is very 

 dark, and almost covered with brilliant white scales; metanotum dark brown. 



Abdomen covered dorsally with dark brown scales and large lateral brilliant 

 white spots, more basal than apical, but not strictly basal, on all but the eighth 

 segment which is brown; venter with all creamy but brilliant scales. 



Legs — coxae all with brilliant white scales, trochanters with brown apical bands; 

 femora a little lighter at the base and ventrally, otherwise the legs are entirely dark, 

 almost black, with a tendency to dark blue iridescence ;u ngues simple and equal. 



Wings clear, brown scaled; cells long; the first sub-marginal longer and about the 

 same width as the second posterior, more than twice as long as its petiole, its base 

 interior to that of the second posterior, the latter also somewhat longer than its 

 petiole; root of the third longitudinal is slightly interior to and about the same 

 length as the mid cross- vein; the posterior cross- vein about the same length as the 

 mid, and twice its own length interior; the scales resemble somewhat small 

 T aeniorhynchus scales. Halteres have the apical half of the stem and knob dark, 

 the base of the stem white. 



Length, 4.5 mm. without proboscis. 



Habitat. Ludlow Barracks, Parang, Mindanao, P. I. Taken. January. 



Described from one moderately good specimen, its most serious 

 defect being the broken proboscis. I am not sure it is a Kingia 

 for there are no curved scales on the head, and the scales of the 

 lateral abdominal spots are not outstanding, but it agrees with the 

 description for this genus better than any other and I have there- 

 for referred it here. The specimen was sent in a collection made by 

 Capt. J. C. Gregory, M. C, U. S. A. 



Stegomia quasinigritia sp. nov. 



Male. Head black scaled except a very narrow median line of light scales, a 

 white median spot at the point of the vertex, minute submedian white spots at the 

 ocular margin, and a few white lateral scales: a few forked scales on the occiput; 

 antennae banded, verticels dark, first joint testaceous, enlarged, basal joint dark 

 with numerous white, close-lying scales, especially on the median aspect; palpi 

 long accuminate, dark brown with four large white spots, at the bases of the four 

 distal joints; proboscis black, not so long as the palpi by nearly the length of their 

 terminal joint; eyes dark; clypeus dark. 



Thorax dark brown, prothoracic lobes with dark brown and white scales and 

 brown bristles; mesonotum with a short median white line of slender curved scales 

 at the cephalad margin, a few white scales near the wing joint, and also near the 

 "bare space"; scutellum dark, the mid-lobe with dark brown flat scales, the lateral 

 lobes white and the scales extremely long; pleura brown with a few white scales; 

 metanotum a rich reddish brown. 



