INSECUTOR INSCITI/E M^NSTRUUS 147 



TWO NEW MOSQUITOES FROM CHINA 



(Diptera, Culicidcs) 



By HARRISON G. DYAR 



Aedes (Finlaya) eucleptes, new species. 



Male. Head with sparse whitish scales over vertex and 

 sides, leaving a black patch on each side. Mesonotum blackish, 

 dark brown scaled, with golden scales in five longitudinal 

 lines, the third line on each side bent laterally around the 

 groove. Abdomen black, with basal segmental lateral white 

 rounded patches ; venter blackish, with white bands at the 

 bases of the segments. Legs black, the femora white on the 

 basal half below and with white tip, the mid and hind legs 

 narrowly white beneath to tip ; tarsi with minute white rings 

 at the bases of the basal joints, on the hind legs forming broad 

 white rings on the first three joints, the last two tarsals wholly 

 black. Wing scales black. 



Hypopygium. Side piece long, slender, conical at base and 

 tip, about four times as long as wide, without lobes ; clasper 

 long, simple, with long terminal spine. Claspette columnar, 

 from a broad triangular base, minutely setose within, but two 

 of the setae larger ; filament over half as long as the stem, 

 with curved pointed tip. Basal parts normal, moderate. 



Female. The markings are more distinct. Head with the 

 black patch on each side well defined, the white lateral scales 

 also divided by a longitudinal black line below ; mesonotum 

 with central golden line distinct, second line very narrow, third 

 curving along the lateral groove, broader ; lateral line a little 

 irregular. Pleurae with white patches. 



Type, male, paratype, female, No. 24141, U. S. Nat. Mus. ; 

 Canton, China (C. W. Howard). The male is numbered 

 "Canton Christian College, Exp. No. 295" and the female 

 "No. 208." 



Allied to eatoni Edw., oreophihts Edw., japonicus Theo., 

 togoi Theo., and macfarlanei Edw., diflfering from the first 

 two in having white tarsal rings, and from the last three in 

 the nnbanded^^abdomen. Togoi further differs in having white 



