New Mosquito from Fiji — LAIRD 
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MATERIAL 
Four larval collections of Aides freydnetiae 
n. sp. were made, all of them from a forest 
climbing plant belonging to the family Pan- 
danaceae, Freydnetia milnei Seem. The first 
location was at an altitude of 125 m. near 
the Glen Pool, Suva (March 1, 1954), and the 
other three were at varying altitudes near 
1,000 m. in the vicinity of Nandarivatu, north- 
ern Viti Levu (March 8 and 9). Larvae were 
rare in all cases, no more than three ever being 
taken from a single axil. Collections from 122 
successive axils (Glen Pool) produced an 
average of only 0.12 larvae per axil (av. water 
content, 1.23 cc). Ecological data concerning 
the larval habitat have already been published 
(Laird, 1956). 
Fourth instar larvae brought back to the 
laboratory did not pupate for up to eight 
days, and the duration of the pupal stage 
ranged from 45 to 50 hours. A small series 
of males and females was obtained. There 
was no opportunity to describe them at the 
time, as the laboratory equipment was being 
crated preparatory to our departure from Fiji, 
which took place a few weeks after these col- 
lections were made. Most unfortunately, an 
accident en route to New Zealand resulted in 
the total destruction of the pinned specimens. 
However, the larval slides and two alcohol- 
preserved adults, a male and a female, sur- 
vived. It is not practicable to attempt a full 
description of the adults from the balsam 
mounts prepared from these specimens, de- 
tails of colouring and scaling having been 
obscured in varying degree. A complete ac- 
count of this insect must await further collec- 
tions, but the male genitalia and the larvae 
are sufficiently distinctive to warrant the de- 
scription of a new species at this stage. 
Aedes {Finlay a) freydnetiae n. sp. 
TYPES: Holotype male, allotype female, and 
seven morphotype larvae, Glen Pool, Suva, 
March 1, 1954. 
LOCATION OF TYPE MATERIAL: Holotype 
male, allotype female and two morphotype 
larvae in the collection of the Dominion Mu- 
seum, Wellington; three morphotype larvae in 
the collection of the University of Queens- 
land; and two morphotype larvae in my own 
collection. 
ADULT: Wing length of holotype male, 
c. 2.5 mm., and of allotype female, 3 mm. The 
terminology used by Marks (1947) is em- 
ployed in the following description. Wing 
(allotype female) with extensive clear areas 
and clothed with broad scales; C having the 
basal pale area continuous with confluent hu- 
meral and prehumeral pale areas; sector pale 
area little more than half the length of the 
preceding dark spot; subcostal pale area two- 
thirds the length of the preceding dark spot, 
and only separated from accessory subcostal 
pale area by a single dark scale (both wings) ; 
apical pale area separated from accessory sub- 
costal pale area by a few scattered dark scales ; 
cell R 2 three times length of stem; otherwise 
generally comparable with wing of A. samoa- 
nus as described by Marks (1947). 
Abdominal sternites VI and VII each bor- 
dered apically by outstanding dark scales. 
The banding of tarsi, tibiae and femora char- 
acteristic of the kochi group, but details in- 
determinate in balsam mounts. 
In the holotype male the palps are longer 
than the proboscis by rather more than the 
length of the apical segment. The genitalia 
are as follows: 
Outer face of coxite dark scaled, about 
twice as long as broad; somewhat beyond the 
centre of the inner margin are two parallel 
lines of tubercles from which originate 14 
lanceolate and dark coloured scales, the most 
distal ones long and narrow and the medial 
and proximal ones shorter and relatively 
broader (Fig. 1); bordering this scale tuft 
tergally is a prominent patch of about 25 
setae (location indicated diagramatically in 
Fig. 2 A) each about half the length of the 
medial scales of the tuft; there are scattered 
curved or apically bent setae distally (Fig. 
2 C), and there is a prominent patch of 75-80 
