36 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 
the year for larve, found them, and through the winter of last 
year had live pupe in his cages. ie ea tells us that of the 
larve of Pararge egeria var. egerides* (usually single-brooded in 
the Harz) obtained from captured females in June, half fed-up 
and emerged in Hamburg in the following September, the rest 
pupating at the end of that month and in October, and in this 
phase hibernating for a spring emergence. 
A NEW MOSQUITO FROM SAMOA. 
By Frep. V. Taropap, M.A., F.E.S., &c. 
Pseudoteniorhynchus samoensis, n. sp. 
Head brown, with narrow pale border around the eyes and pale 
line in the middle, a dark patch on each side ; black upright scales 
all over the head. Proboscis almost black, with a median creamy 
band. Thorax deep brown, with somewhat marked median lines and 
two pale spots before the bare space in front of scutellum. Abdo- 
men deep blackish-brown, unbanded except for a narrow pale basal 
broken band on the last segment, with basal, almost white, lateral 
spots; venter with third and fourth segments with basal pale bands, 
the fifth with a line of pale scales at the apex, others with traces of 
basal bands. Legs deep brown, narrowly banded, the bands mainly 
basal, but traces on the apices. Wings brown scaled. 
?. Head shiny blackish, with a few small pale narrow-curved 
scales and numerous upright black forked scales all over it, a line of 
pale narrow-curved scales around the eyes and small flat grey and 
dark lateral scales, a median nude line appearing pale; proboscis 
rather thick, black with a median pale creamy band, black chet 
ventrally at the base; palpi moderately long, black-scaled; clypeus 
deep brownish black. 
Thorax black, with small, narrow-curved thin brown scales, very 
dense, two spots of similar but pale golden scales before the bare 
space in front of the scutellum, traces of two median parallel bare 
lines showing as dark lines, with two lines of paler hairs in the 
middle and others at the sides; lateral chetz black, very dense over 
the wing-roots and a number on each side of the bare space passing 
back to the scutellum; scutellum paler, with small narrow-curved 
dark scales and long black posterior border-bristles, dense on the 
lateral lobes: metanotum brown; pleure black and grey with some 
small flat whitish scales. 
Abdomen black, unbanded, with small basal creamy white lateral 
spots, which are prominent on the last segment, nearly forming a band; 
posterior border hairs pallid; venter with basal pale bands, the fifth 
with a white band near or on the apical border; on the sixth and 
seventh segments the basal lateral spots spread out along the sides 
of the segments to some extent. 
Legs dark brownish black, the fore pair with a small apical yellow 
spot on femora and tibiz and on the first four tarsals basal pale 
