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Segment III : A small, simple spine; B long, 
simple; C long, two-branched, very rarely five- 
branched; 1 long, simple, very rarely two-forked; 
2 small, two-forked near middle or rarely three- 
forked or simple; 3 represented only by its 
socket; 4 small, two-forked or simple, occasion- 
ally three- or four-forked. 
Segment IV: A small, simple spine; B long, sim- 
ple or very rarely two-forked; c long, two- 
forked near base, rarely simple or three -forked; 
1 medium, simple; 2 medium, two-forked or 
simple; 3 represented only by its socket; 4 me- 
dium, two- or three-forked, rarely simple or 
three-forked. 
Segment V: A small, simple spine; B long, sim- 
ple; C medium, two-forked or occasionally sim- 
ple; 1 medium, simple; 2 medium, two-forked, 
occasionally three-forked, rarely simple; 3 repre- 
sented only by its socket; 4 medium, simple or 
rarely two-forked. 
Segment VI: A slightly longer than A-V, simple; 
B long, simple; C medium, simple or occasion- 
ally two-branched; 1 medium, simple; 2 me- 
dium, two-forked near middle or simple; 3 
absent; 4 medium, simple. 
Segment VII: A medium, simple; B long, sim- 
ple; C medium, simple; 1 small, simple or occa- 
sionally two-forked; 2 medium, simple; 4 me- 
dium, simple or rarely two-forked. 
Segment VIII: A long, two-branched with small 
side branches at middle, occasionally simple or 
three- to four-branched; A' medium, simple or 
two-forked near apex. 
Paddle: Oval with apex more or less pointed; 
margin with a fringe of long fine hairs; midrib 
strong, dividing the paddle almost equally; ter- 
minal seta long, strong, simple or occasionally 
two-forked. 
Specimens examined. — The pupal exuviae 
of 34 males and 33 females from Hilimoi and 
KanaKope, Milne Bay, Papua; Draeger Harbor, 
Northeast New Guinea; and Mios Woendi, 
Dutch New Guinea. 
Aedes (Stegomyia) albopictus (Skuse) 1895 
The pupa of A. albopictus has received con- 
siderable attention. Banks (1908: 246) gave 
brief notes on it, without figures, as Stegomyia 
samarensis; Baisas (1938: 181) gave a figure 
of the abdomen and paddles without descrip- 
tion; Edwards (1941: 391) reproduced Baisas’ 
figure and gave a diagnostic description; and 
Taylor (1943: 159; 1944: 87) reproduced 
Baisas’ figure without description. 
Diagnosis. — Very similar to A. scutellaris 
and impossible to separate on the basis of pub- 
lished descriptions alone. Edwards lists the fol- 
lowing features: seta A-II-V quite small and 
pale, A- VI twice as long and dark, A-VII still 
longer and quite simple; A-VIII single or forked 
or with a few short branches at some distance 
from base. Paddle more or less pointed and 
with a fringe of long hairs. 
Aedes (Stegomyia) aegypti (Linnaeus) 1762 
Fig. 41 
The pupa of this species has received a great 
deal more attention than that of any other mos- 
quito. The most detailed study of its chaeto- 
taxy was that of Macfie (1920: 161) based 
on ten specimens from West Africa. Aedes 
aegypti pupae have been variously included in 
numerous other papers and the figures and de- 
scriptions presented have varied from the very 
briefest mention to rather complete diagnoses, 
but none has approached the completeness of 
Macfie’s descriptions. Other than Macfie, authors 
who have published on this species include 
Mitchell (1907: 253), Banks (1908: 243), 
Wesche (1910: 25), Howard, Dyar, and Knab 
(1912-1917 [vol. 2}: pi. 150; [vol. 4]: 824), 
Theodor (1924: 344), Cooling (1924: 13), 
Buxton and Hopkins (1925: 300), Kirkpat- 
rick (1925: 87), Buxton and Hopkins (1927: 
113), Edwards (1941: 388), Taylor (1943: 
152), Parr (1943: 250), Taylor (1944: 80), 
and Bohart and Ingram (1946: 6). 
Although A. aegypti is recorded from New 
Guinea, we did not succeed in collecting speci- 
mens. Accordingly, the description which fol- 
lows and the figure have been taken, with 
modifications, from Macfie. 
Diagnosis. — Readily separated from other 
