Genus Dendromyia. 605 



white scales ; scutellum brown, densely covered with broad flat, brown 

 iridescent scales ; metanotum rich brown, with heavy median bunch of 

 brown bristles (not less than 16-20) on caudal half. 



Abdomen dark, densely covered with broad dark (almost black) flat 

 iridescent scales ; venter with broad white bands, very broad on the 

 cephalic segments, which extend so far around as to appear from the 

 dorsal aspect like basal lateral white spots. 



Legs, coxae and trochanters light; femora of hind legs ventrally light, 

 less so on the other legs, and otherwise the legs are dark brown ; the 

 tarsal segments of fore and mid legs in some lights are almost a fawn 

 colour ; all the ungues equal and simple. 



Wings clear, with heavy brown scales resembling those found in 

 Taeniorhynchus, but the median scales, especially on the costa, sub-costa 

 and first long veins, heavier and inclined at times to be asymmetrical ; 

 cells short ; first sub-marginal a little longer and about the same width as 

 the second posterior cell, the stems a little shorter than the cells ; super- 

 numerary and mid cross-veins are about the same length, and meet the 

 posterior cross-vein a little longer, and one and a half times its length 

 distant. Halteres have white stem and dark knob. 



Length. — About 4 mm. ; proboscis 2 mm. 



Eabitat. — Camp Stotzenberg, Angeles, Pampanga, Luzon, Philippine 

 Islands. 



Time of capture. — September ?. 



Observation. — Described from one specimen, perfect except as 

 to the antennae, sent by Dr. Whitmore (Ludlow)." 



Dendromyia mitchellii. Theobald* (1905). 

 Mosquitoes of Jamaica, p. 37 (1905). 



Head deep brown, with grey scales at the sides ; proboscis and 

 palpi deep brown ; antennae brown. Thorax deep shiny brown, 

 clothed with deep brown scales ; pleurae bright ochraceous, with 

 patches of silvery white scales. Abdomen deep blackish, with 

 grey or creamy venter ; unbanded and unspotted ; apex dark 

 ventrally, with black bristles ; legs long and thin, deep brown, 

 except one side of the last three mid tarsals (and the tip of the 

 fifth, which is black), and the apex of the second, which are 

 shiny silvery white. Wings with brown scales ; fork-cells long. 



9 . Head deep brown, clothed with flat deep brown scales, 

 except around the eyes, where there is a broad border of grey 



* This has been referred to by Blanchard and Bourroul under a MS. 

 name medioalbipes : it was never described under this name so it must be 

 abolished. 



