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This species is widely distributed over Asia and the East Indies, where it largely 

 takes the place oi Stegomyia fasciata (Fabr.). 



The species in the Fiji Islands and the Pacific Islands is not as I recorded (Monog. 

 Culicidse, v. p. 155) this insect, but a distinct species known as Stegomyia pseudoscutellaris 

 Theobald (The Entomologist, June 1910, p. 156). 



True scutellaris have white puncta on the pleurae, pseudoscutellaris has prominent 

 white lines. 



The single median white thoracic line is the same, however, in both species and thus 

 they may easily be confused. 



Genus Reedomyia, Ludlow. 



Ludlow, Canad. Ent., xxxvii. 94, 1905 ; Theobald, Monog. Culicid., iv. 257, 1907, 

 V. 252, 1910. 



3. Reedomyia seychellensis, nov. sp. (Plate 4, figs. 1, 2 and Text-fig. 2). 



Thorax rich brown with some scattered golden scales ; scutellum with flat white 

 scales ; pleurae pale brown with patches of flat creamy scales. Head with a prominent 

 dark spot on each side. Abdomen black, second to fourth segments with narrow basal 



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Fig. 2. Reedomyia seychellensis, nov. sp. .\. Wing of 9 • "• Wing of var. similis. 



white bands, small basal lateral white spots ; venter with broad basal white bands. Legs 

 brown, unhanded, ventei" of femora creamy, an apical creamy spot on femora and a broader 

 apical pale band to the tibiae, most prominent on the hind legs. 



?. Head (Plate 4, fig. 1) dark, clothed with narrow-curved pale golden scales in the 

 middle, which show brown tinges in front, upright black forked scales behind and a few 

 thin upright long brown forked scales in front, a large patch of flat black scales on each 

 side followed by flat creamy scales which partially surround the dark area posteriorly, 

 chaetae black ; clypeus nude, black ; palpi small, densely clothed with black scales and 

 with black chaetae ; proboscis normal brownish-black. Thorax deep rich brown, with small 



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