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A Monograph of Culicidae. 
two $’s and sixteen $’s; Victoria and Capucin, Seychelles, 
nineteen■$’s (P. B. Dupont) •§ Pacific Heights, Honolulu, one 
9 (Terry). 
Date of capture. —Calcutta in July, August, September and 
October (N. Annandale) ; April, May, June and July at Sylhet, 
Assam; July in Manipur; October at Katibar; April, May, 
August and September in Ceylon ; June at Hangchow, China 
(21st to 28th); February, March, April in Seychelles (23. ii. 06, 
22 and 24. iii. 06, 27. iv. 06); September (xiii. 03) in Honolulu. 
Notes and observations. — Annandale says of this insect at 
Calcutta : “ Common during the hot weather and the rains, dis¬ 
appearing in winter, active by day.” D’Emmerez de Charmoy, 
speaking of this insect, says, in Mauritius “ very common every¬ 
where, certainly the most abundant species of the Island; the 
larvae occurred in tins, leaves, holes in trees, and in the Ananas 
Sauvages.” Terry, writing from Honolulu, says of this species : 
“ Parer than the other two mosquitoes (S. fasciata and C. faii- 
gans), hut occurs in town also.” 
Type in the British Museum. 
Stegomyia scutellaris. Walker, 
var. samarensis. Ludlow (1903). 
Journal New York Ent. Soc., Sept. (1903), Ludlow; Canad. Ento. XXXVI., 
71 (1904), Ludlow; ibid. XXXVII., 134 (1905), Ludlow; Journ. Phil. 
Sci. I., 9, 985 (1906), Banks ; Mono. Culicid. IV., 179 (1907), Theobald ; 
Mosq. Philip. Isis., 10 (1908), Ludlow. 
Samar, Leyte, and Mindoro, in Philippine Islands ; Camp 
McKinlay, Hawaii. 
Additional localities. —Iloilo, P.I.; Negros, Occidental, Bago, 
P.I. (Banks) ; Manila, P.I. (Craig). 
Notes.- —-Banks notes that “ this seems a widespread mosquito 
in the Philippines and conforms always with Miss Ludlow’s 
description. S. scutellaris , Walker, has never been found by me 
nor brought in by collectors. The entomological collection, 
Bureau of Science, contains some very interesting varieties of 
this sub-species, all bred from the same lot of eggs and to be 
described later. It would seem very probable that these species, 
i.e., S. scutellaris and S. fasciata , may be very closely related and 
possibly intergradation may occur.” 
It is scarely conceivable that these two very marked species 
or their varieties are likely ( Jo interbreed. They are totally 
distinct in appearance and habits. 
