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Luzon: Agoo, La Union Prov. (Franclemont) . 
Literature records. Negros: Bago and Mail- 
urn, Negros Occidental Prov. (Banks, 1906: 
990). Luzon: Lucban, Tayabas Prov. (Marks, 
1947: 34). 
Known outside of the Philippines from 
Simaloer, Lombok, Java, Sumatra, Borneo, 
Celebes, Malaya, North Bengal, and Burma. 
DISCUSSION: The type of poicilius has been 
examined and found to differ most notably 
from the Philippine material described here 
in lacking the basal spot of white scales on 
the first segment of the fore tarsus (a clear 
bare spot is present, however). Because of 
this difference, although admittedly minor in 
nature, it seems possible that the Philippine 
material may represent a distinct form. If it 
does, then it is not confined to the Philip- 
pines because in checking for the presence or 
absence of basal pale scales on I of the fore 
tarsus on all the female specimens in the 
British Museum collection it was found that 
the specimens (three in all) from Lampongs, 
Sumatra (Shiiffner); Batavia, Java (Brug); and 
Buitenzorg, Java (Paine), all possessed the 
basal spot of white scales. On the other hand, 
the specimens (five in all) from Kuala Lum- 
pur, Malaya (Dusham); Kuching (?), Sara- 
wak, Borneo (Moulton); Mt. Korinchi, 
Sumatra (Robinson and Kloss); and Sando- 
way, Burma (Barraud) , were all similar to the 
type in lacking the spot. 
The type and the specimens from Kuala 
Lumpur and Kuching also differed from the 
Philippine specimens in having the lateral 
scutellar lobes entirely black-scaled except 
for 2-3 white scales mesally. The specimens 
from Mt. Korinchi and Buitenzorg had the 
lateral lobes white-scaled (white basally and 
dark apically in the Philippine material). 
However, since the relative amounts of dark 
and pale scaling of the lateral scutellar lobes 
are normally somewhat variable in Philippine 
specimens, this character is probably not of 
value. 
In view of the above-described variations, 
it would be of great interest to compare the 
male terminalia of specimens from various 
portions of the geographical range of poicilius. 
Unfortunately there are no male specimens in 
either the British Museum or the U. S. 
National Museum from any locality outside 
the Philippines. Brug (1934: 513) figured the 
terminalia from unspecified material (un- 
doubtedly from the Netherlands East Indies, 
however), but, since he did not include the 
tergal setal pattern of the basistyle, it is im- 
possible to make a complete comparison 
with Philippine specimens. However, in the 
details shown there are no apparent dif- 
ferences. 
The only larval descriptions of specimens 
from elsewhere than the Philippines (and 
where the collection locality is definitely 
given) are by Brug (1931: 22, from Javan 
specimens) and by Edwards (in Barraud, 
1934: 158, from Brug’s Javan material). Brug 
described the larva as having head hair 5 
with 3 branches and as having a stout elon- 
gate spine at the base of the thoracic pleural 
tufts. Edwards’ description differs from that 
of Brug’s in stating that no special spines 
occur on the plates of the thorax (describes 
head hair 5 as having 2-3 branches) . Whether 
or not the thoracic spines occur, the Javan 
specimens are markedly distinct from those 
of the Philippines on the branching of head 
hair 5. Three larval specimens in the British 
Museum from Klakali, R. Bedali, East Java 
(Thieneman, reared ex Colocasid), have been 
compared (presumably the ones referred to 
by Edwards in Barraud, 1934) with Philip- 
pine specimens. The only notable differences 
found were: antennal hair double in four of 
six cases (remainder single), hair 1 (pre- 
clypeal spine) single, and head hair 5 with 
2-4 branches. Hair 11 of the meso- and meta- 
thoracic segments was stoutly spinose as 
Brug pointed out and as is typical of the 
Philippine specimens. 
Aedes (Finlaya) stonei Knight and Laffoon 
1946. Aedes {Finlaya) stonei Knight and Laf- 
foon, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc. 72: 208 
