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pilose, without acus, index 2.7-5 A; 7-11 
smooth pecten teeth; siphon hair long, single 
(3-branched at three fifths of length in one 
specimen) extending beyond tip of siphon. 
Anal plate incomplete, with a patch of small 
spines along the posterior lateral margin; Ih 
of two long, stout, equal branches borne on 
a tubercle; /re with 3 branches, ojc with 2 or 3; 
ventral brush with 12 stalked tufts, each with 
2-4 branches, barred area absent. Gills rather 
narrow, subequal, the dorsal pair (two speci- 
mens) 3. 7-4. 2 times longer than the anal 
plate. 
BIONOMICS: Females were collected on one 
occasion resting at the base of trees in wet 
jungle at about 1,000 feet elevation. The 
larvae were collected once from the axils of a 
banana-like plant along a jungle stream at 
about 800 feet elevation. The axil spaces were 
small and held a very small amount of water. 
DISTRIBUTION: Specimens examined. R.K.L. 
Samar: 1 female, 1 set assoc, skins, 5 larvae, 
Osmena, about 800 feet (Laffoon, Knight). 
Leyte: 3 females, Mt. Lobi, nr. Dagami (Laf- 
foon, Knight). A.N.S.P. Leyte: Mt. Lobi, 
about 1,000 feet. Burugwan River, Tacloban 
(Roberts). 
Unknown outside the Philippines. 
Aedes (Stegomyia) albopictus (Skuse) 
Fig. 10 
1894. Culex albopictus Skuse, Indian Mus., 
Notes 3: 20 (3 females). Type locality: 
India. Calcutta, Bengal (Cotes). Type: 
Female (holotype) in University of Sydney, 
N. S. W. Edwards (1932: 164) indicates 
that this description was actually published 
in 1895. 
1901. Stegomyia scutellaris. Walker. Theobald, 
Mon. Cul. 1: 298. Also: Banks, Philippine 
Jour. Sci. 3; 246. 1908. Leicester, Cul. 
Malaya, p. 86. 1908. Misidentifications. 
1903. S. scutellaris subspecies samarensis Lud- 
low, Jour. N. Y. Ent. Soc. 11: 138 (males, 
females). Type locality: Philippines. Samar. 
Type: 2 males, 4 females (cotypes) in 
U.S.N.M.t 
1904. Stegomyia Lamberti Ventrillon, Paris 
Mus., Bui. 10: 552 (males, females). Type 
locality: Madagascar. Majunga, Tananarive 
(Lambert). Type: Location unknown. Not 
found in Paris Museum by T. A. Reid in 
1946. 
1910. Stegomyia nigritia Ludlow, Canad. Ent. 
13: 194 (2 females). Type locality: Philip- 
pines. Cotabato, Cotabato Prov., Min- 
danao. Type: 2 females (cotypes) in U.S. 
N.M.f 
1911. Stegomyia quasinigritia Ludlow, Psyche 
18: 129 (male). Type locality: Philippines. 
Turucan, Mindanao (Seith). Type: Male 
'(holotype) in U.S. N.M.f 
1917. Aedes {Stegomyia) albopicta Skuse. Ed- 
wards, Bui. Ent. Res. 7: 209- Synonymized 
samarensis. 
1925. Aedes {Stegomyia) albopictus Skuse. Dyar 
and Shannon, Insecutor Inscitiae Men- 
struus 13: 74. Synonymized nigritia and 
quasinigritia. 
1932. A. (5.) albopictus Skuse. Edwards, 
Genera Insectorum, fasc. 194, p. 164. 
Synonymized lamberti. 
Barraud, 1934: 233 (description, syste- 
matics). Bonne-Wepster and Brug, 1932: 73 
(complete treatment). Bohart and Ingram, 
1946: 5, 35, 64 (description, systematics, 
biology) . 
ADULT: A black and white species, with a 
prominent median longitudinal silvery scutal 
stripe and basal abdominal bands. Hind 
tarsal segments I-IV basally banded, V all 
white. 
Male. Wing length 2. 0-2. 5 mm. Head: 
Proboscis dark. Palpus slightly longer than 
proboscis; dark, segments II-V with basal 
white bands, those on II-III incomplete ven- 
trally and those on IV-V incomplete dor- 
sally; a few short stiff setae apically on III-V 
and along IV. Torus with silver scales. Vertex 
broad-scaled; marked with median, sub- 
lateral, and lateral areas of white scaling; 
dark upright-forked scales along the nape. 
Thorax: Scutum covered with narrow dark 
