Mosquitoes in Melanesia — Belkin 
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Description 
female (K-759a). Wing: 3.35 mm. Ab- 
domen: 2.15 mm. Proboscis: 3.00 mm. Front 
femur: 2.30 mm. 
Head: Vertex with dark, iridescent bronzy, 
broad, appressed scales; narrow orbital line 
of smaller, narrower white scales, expanding 
into a patch on each side ventrally on post- 
gena; occiput with a curved line of about 15 
narrow, apically expanded, forked, erect 
brown scales on each side and a more caudal 
line of narrow, elongate, whitish recumbent 
scales projecting over broad vertical scales 
between the erect occipital scales; frontal pair 
of bristles brown, about 1.5 length of clypeus; 
dark orbitals 3:1, lower shorter. Clypeus about 
0.06 of proboscis, brown and bare, cephalic 
portion and anteclypeus lighter and finely 
spiculate. Palpus about 0.1 of proboscis, base 
bare, remainder shaggy with dark scales and 
bristles. Proboscis very slender throughout 
and not markedly curved, uniformly and 
smoothly covered with moderately narrow 
dark iridescent scales; labella light apically, 
dark-scaled at base as rest of proboscis. An- 
tenna about 0.6 of proboscis; torus very light 
brown, with a few short hairs and scales 
mesally and dorsally; flagellum darker; about 
8 long bristles in a whorl; basal segment with 
numerous appressed scalelike hairs on mesal 
face; hairs more outstanding apically; apical 
three segments subequal to each other and 
to one of more basal segments. 
Thorax: Scutal integument brown and with 
a faint indication of darker longitudinal lines; 
dense vestiture of small, bronzy, narrow, 
curved, appressed scales; laterally scales are 
lighter in color above the pleura; scales more 
slender, longer and less curved, and white in 
color on anterior promontory; area above 
paratergite with light and white scales longer 
and broader, only slightly curved and more 
outstanding; about six pairs of dorsocentrals 
merging into about six pairs of strong and 
several weaker prescutellars, dorsocentral row 
interrupted at level of scutal angle; acros- 
tichals absent; 15 to 20 or more pairs of 
supraalars; anterior promontory with a pair 
of strong bristles in the middle and three 
bristles on each side; on each side one bristle 
near the border above ppn and another mesad 
and slightly caudad of scutal angle; all bris- 
tles dark. Scutellum brown; median lobe with 
four strong bristles and a pair of weak ones, 
densely covered with very dark, iridescent, 
broad, appressed scales; lateral lobe with four 
strong and a pair of weak bristles and with 
a few smaller dark, iridescent, broad, ap- 
pressed scales. Postnotum dark brown, darker 
in the middle and laterally. Pleural integu- 
ment dark brown, lighter under wing base, 
along membranous area and anterior part of 
stp, somewhat lighter under longitudinal scale 
streak; ppn with 12 to 15 small, broad, white, 
appressed scales near scutal border; a diagonal 
longitudinal streak of larger broad, white, 
appressed scales involving the middle of an,p 
lower part of ppn , lower subspiracular area, 
upper part of middle of stp and lower part of 
middle of mesepimeron; caudal border of stp 
from slightly above lower mesepimeral margin 
with vertical patch of similar scales; pp with a 
small patch of similar white scales, some more 
elongate ones projecting over membrane be- 
tween fore coxa and sternopleuron; two or 
three white scales at base of upper mesepi- 
meral bristles; apn with about four dark bris- 
tles in upper third, two strong dark ones in 
the middle and one dark and three or four 
light bristles in lower; ppn with one dark 
bristle slightly above ventral angle of spiracle; 
one dark and 2 light spiraculars ; pp with 7 or 
8 light bristles, 3 or more of which are long 
and somewhat darker; prealars 4 short, usually 
dark bristles and 2 to 4 light hairs; one weak, 
light upper sternopleural, slightly above level 
of scale streak; a group of 4 to 6 weak light 
lower sternopleurals at lower edge of vertical 
scale patch; upper mesepimerals a group of 
10 to 12 light bristles; other bristles absent. 
Haltere light brown at base and stem, dark- 
scaled on knob. 
