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front of wings, sub-parallel with hinder curve of lyre-figure, its 
beginning on pleura.” 
This is according to Banks the common mosquito in the 
Philippine Islands. He says concerning S. fasciata , Fabr.: “I 
have never found this species, nor has it been brought to me by 
any collector. S. faciata persistans , Banks, is the form which I 
have always obtained in various parts of the Philippines.” 
The first S. fasciata sent me by Miss Ludlow from the 
Philippines was the variety mosquito. Others I have had quite 
typical, and some of the variety luciensis , Theobald. 
Miss Ludlow * refers to this sub-species as follows :—“ A new 
variety of fasciata (calopus ) has lately been founded, i.e., 
persistans , Banks, which Mr. Banks says is the only form taken 
in the Philippine Islands, but the variety is based on a 
misconception. Mr. Banks has probably never studied the 
Stegomyia found in the Southern States, and so does not realize 
that his differences occur merely on account of inaccurate 
descriptions of fasciata. The insect is the same in both 
countries, except that as far as I have seen them, the specimens 
from the Philippines seem, as a whole, more clearly marked.” 
The specimens I have received from the Philippines were 
typical fasciata, and the varieties called mosquito and luciensis — 
probably any number of marked varieties can be noticed. But 
persistans is almost typical if not typical of this widely distributed 
species. It had best be kept as a variety. 
Stegomyia Nigeria. Theobald (1901). 
Mono. Culicid. I., 303 (1901). 
Bonny, West Africa. 
Additional locality.- —Bailundu, Angola, West Africa (Dr. 
Creighton Wellman); taken in house at lamps 8 p.m. 14. iv. 05. 
Type in the British Museum. 
Stegomyia lilii. nov. sp. 
Head black with snow-white median area and white at the 
sides; palpi black in 9 with snow-white apices ; proboscis black. 
* ‘ ‘ The Mosquitoes of the Philippine Islands: the distribution of 
certain species and their occurren6e in relation to the incidence of certain 
diseases.” P. 8 (1908), Washington D.C. 
