FOUR NEW CULICID/E FROM THE PHILIPPINES. 



By C'hakles S. Bakks. 



(From the Entomological Section, Biological Laboratory, Bureau of Science, 



Manila, P. I.) 



In the course of an investigation of the mosquitoes and other insects 

 of the town of Taytay, Eizal Province, during the present year, I was 

 fortunate in being able to obtain full-grown larvse and breed out adults 

 of two memljers of tl\e genus Cul&x which prove to be new to science. 

 These forms are so different from known ones and so distinct in their 

 markings that their identification is comparatively easy. The>" were 

 both found breeding under similar conditions and I hope in the near 

 future to be able to work out their entire life histories. 



During a trip to Benguet in 1907, larvEe were taken from water in the 

 pitcher plant (Nepenthes alata Bl.) and from these there were olitained 

 a great many adults of a species which also proves to be new. This 

 species belongs to the genus Wyeoinyia and is thus the first species of 

 this genus to be reported from the Philippines. 



In 190G Mr. P. C. McGregor, of the Bureau of Science, during a ti'i]3 

 to the Island of Basilan south of itindanao, collected a considerable 

 amount of very interesting Culicid material among wliich is a new species 

 of the genus Kerteszia; the first record of this genus in the- Islands. The 

 two specimens taken by Mr. McGregor are both males and are in perfect 

 condition. 



Culex taytayensis, sp. nov. 



5 , length 3.-5— i millimeters, length of wing 3.5 millimetei's, length of 

 proboscis 1.5 millimeters. Pale brown, head pale grey, abdomen ligliter 

 than thorax; legs pale grej'-brown; pleura with alternate horizontal areas 

 of l)rown and white. 



Head witli pale grey narrow .scales on occiput and sides, interspersed 

 on occiput with dark, upright, forked scales ; eyes red-1n-own : antennse, 

 including cilia, dark In-own; proljoscis unhanded, pale lirown, apex darker; 

 palpi less tlian one-eighth lengtli of proboscis, dark brown, inconspicuous. 



Prothoracic lobes brown, with numerous curved seta; ; mesonotum with 

 uniform, pale l)rown, narrow scales interspersed with grey on anterior 

 and posterior areas; scutellum with wliite or silver-grey scales on median 



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