36 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



the year for larvse, found them, and through the winter of last 

 year had live pupae in his cages. He further tells us that of the 

 larvae 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 FEOM SAMOA. 

 By Fred. V. Theobald, M.A., F.E.S., &c. 



Pseudotaniorhynclms samocensis, 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, unhanded 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 chaetae 

 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 chaetae 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 ; pleurae black and grey with some 

 small flat whitish scales. 



Abdomen black, unhanded, 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 tibiae and on the first four tarsals basal pale 



