Aedes of the Philippines — Knight and Hull 
tergally attached to the base of the claspette 
is a slender elongate detached lobe that bears 
a curving line of blade-like scales (omitted 
from right side of figure but shown isolated 
on left side) ; inner tergal margin with a line 
of stiff setae from base to near middle. 
Claspette filament a twisted blade-like struc- 
ture. 
Female. Wing length about 2.5 mm. Differ- 
ing from the male as follows: Palpus about 
one-fifth as long as proboscis, dark. Torus 
not scaled. Hind tarsal V with dorsal pale 
scaling (probably for whole length but diffi- 
cult to make out on the single specimen at 
hand). Tergite VII with a complete basal 
band. 
The female from Culion differs from the 
above specimen as follows: Median scutal 
line not parted down the middle, the an- 
terior portion of the submedian line and the 
line along the anterior fossa largely obsolete, 
all of the scutal markings more reduced in 
size. Hind tarsus with basal and apical band- 
ing on I-IV, V definitely white-scaled dorsally 
for its whole length. Complete basal bands on 
tergites III-VII. 
LARVA: Apparently identical to the larva 
of leucopleurus except for the following points : 
Head hair 5 (present on one side only) with 
5 branches. Lateral hairs on abdominal seg- 
ments I and II are stouter, and the lateral hair 
on II is the same length as the lateral hair on 
I. All ventral brush tufts arising from a con- 
nected barred area. A detached acus is present 
on the anal plate of the single specimen ex- 
amined. 
BIONOMICS: The adults were not encoun- 
tered in nature. Both the larval collections 
were from tree holes. 
DISTRIBUTION: Specimens examined. R.K.L. 
Culion Island: 1 female, Pilapil (Laffoon, 
Fitzgerald). C. A. S. Mindoro: 1 male, 1 female, 
1 set assoc, skins, San Jose (Ross). 
Outside of the Philippines this species is 
known from Sumatra, Java, Celebes, Ka- 
baena, Alor, Soembawa, Timor, Ceram, Am- 
boina, Dutch New Guinea, and India. 
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DISCUSSION: Not previously known from 
the Philippines. 
The identification of these specimens is 
based upon a comparison with a series of 
specimens from Hollandia, New Guinea, of 
what is believed to be aureostriatus . However, 
as the type of aureostriatus is non-existent, this 
latter identification can only be regarded as 
provisional. The New Guinea specimens 
differ slightly as follows: The upright- forked 
scales of the vertex are brown, the lateral 
scutellar lobes have brown narrow scales, and 
the abdominal tergal bands are incomplete 
except occasionally on VI-VII, the lateral 
larval hair on abdominal segment I is stouter, 
and the lateral larval hair on segment II is 
double, stout, and long (rather than single, 
short, and slender). The male terminalia ap- 
pear to be completely similar. The scutal 
markings are exactly similar to those of the 
female specimen from Culion. 
Aedes (Finlay a) aureostriatus var. greeni 
(Theobald), known from India, Ceylon, 
Assam, Sumatra, and Java, is apparently 
separable from the type species only on the 
basis of the suffused nature of the scutal pale 
scale pattern. It is possible that the Mindoro 
specimens should be considered this variety. 
The type of greenii, which has been seen by 
us, has the upright-forked scales yellow, the 
lateral scutellar scales brown, and complete 
abdominal bands on tergites III-VI. 
On the basis of the remarks by Edwards (in 
Barraud, 1934), kanaranus is here regarded as 
a synonym of aureostriatus. The location of 
the type of this form is at present unknown. 
Aedes (F.) okinawanus Bohart from Okinawa 
is very closely related to aureostriatus, ap- 
parently differing only slightly on details of 
the male terminalia. 
Aedes (Finlaya) saxicola Edwards 
1908. FLtdecoeteomyia fluviatilis Leicester (nec 
Lutz, 1904), Cul. Malaya, p. Ill (male, fe- 
male). Type locality: Malay Peninsula. Ulu 
Gombak (Leicester). Type: Non-existent. 
