﻿SOLOMON ISLANDS TRIPTEROIDES — BELKIN 205 



quasiomata (now Tripteroides lipovskyi). Paine and Edwards 

 (1929) added ten more species and subspecies to the Solomon fauna, 

 mcluding Tripteroides filipes (now THpteroides mathesoni) . From 

 that date until 1944 no published work appeared on the mosquitoes 

 of the Solomons. Since the entomologists in the armed forces began 

 collecting in this area, several papers have been published describing 

 new species: Farner and Bohart (1944), Belkin and Schlosser (1944), 

 Stone and Bohart (1944), Owen (1945), Belkin, Knight, and Roze- 

 boom (1945), and Belkin (1945). The Tripteroides of the area were 

 not touched until 1946, when Lee briefly mentioned them in his re- 

 vision of the Australasian members of this genus. 



MATERIAL AND METHODS 



MATERIAL 



This study is based on material collected by myself and associates 

 on Guadalcanal Island. All individually reared specimens from the 

 Solomons are part of this collection. Representative series have been 

 deposited in the United States National Museum, Cornell University, 

 the British Museum, and the Museum of the Council for Scientific 

 and Industrial Research, Canberra, A. C. T., Australia. A large col- 

 lection from the New Georgia group, principally Munda Point and 

 adjacent islands, was made available to me by John G. Franclemont. 

 The remainder of the material studied came from the collections of 

 the National Museum and originated on Guadalcanal, Bougainville, 

 Sterling Island in the Treasury group, the Florida group, and the New 

 Georgia group. The following numbers of specimens were studied : 

 90 individual rearings of five species ; 743 adults of seven species ; 24;} 

 pupae of five species; 893 larvae of eight species — a total of 1,879 

 specimens. 



COLLECTING METHODS 



On Guadalcanal a systematic survey of the mosquitoes of the coastal 

 area was undertaken as an adjunct to the malaria-control activities. 

 This survey continued without interruption from October 1943 through 

 the middle of May 1945. Larval collections were made in as many 

 breeding habitats as possible throughout this period in order to obtain 

 a representation of as many species as possible at all seasons of the 

 year. Notes were taken on the more obvious ecological factors in the 

 breeding places on a standard form (fig. 32). This larval material 

 was reared in the laboratory as outlined below. The adult collections 

 consisted primarily of almost daily catches at lighted, screened, and 

 unscreened quarters at various times in the evening and at night. 

 Daytime collections in open areas, as well as in the jungle, and in 

 dwellings were also made periodically. Other collections were ob- 

 tained from natural daytime resting places. 



