SHORT DESCRIPTION OF THE LARVA OF LOPHO- 
SCELOMYIA ASIATICA, LEICESTER 1905, AND 
NOTES ON THE SPECIES. 
By C. STRICKLAND, M.A., B.C. 
Travelling Medical Entomologist, Federated Malay States. 
(With o Text-figures.) 
The larva of Leicester’s bamboo-breeding anopheline “ asiatica ” as 
Stanton says (1912) has not been previously described, although 
Leicester himself mentioned in his monograph that it was characterised 
by the possession of a vei’y conspicuous black marking on the thorax 
shaped like a Maltese Cross ; so having recently obtained a batch of 
seven of these creatures from a cut-bamboo at Ginting Simpah, the j^ass 
between the Native Malay States of Selangor and Pahang which is at 
an altitude of 1500 feet, I will attempt to fill the deficiency in our 
knowledge, adding as well a few notes on the biological side of the 
subject. 
Description of Larva. 
As Leicester says, the naked eye appearance of the larva is very 
striking, for on an almost uniformly old-gold colouration is this con¬ 
spicuous Maltese Cross marking on the thorax, and also another very 
distinct black ma^’king about half-way down the abdomen. The head 
is tinged with a deeper colour than elsewhere. No other Malayan 
anopheline larva as yet described could be possibly mistaken for it, 
although Colonel Alcock’s new species ivellingtoniana, in view of the 
striking similarity in the adult stage between it and asiatica, might 
ultimately be found to present the same appearance. The larva of 
asiatica \s large, and resembles in shape the larvae of the Myzorhynchns 
group of species. 
