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Stegomyia pcjnctolater alis. Theobald (1903). 
Entomologist, XXXYI., 156 (1903), Theobald; Journ. Trop. Med. VII., 
367 (1904), Giles; Gen. Ins. Culicid., 10 (1905), Theobald; Mono. 
Culicid. IV., 189 (1907), Theobald; Phil. Journ. Sci. I., 9, 984 (1906), 
Banks; Anns. Queensland Museum, No. 8, p. 22 (1908), Bancroft. 
South Queensland. 
Additional locality. —Pampanga, Camp Stotensberg, Angeles, 
P. I. (E. R. Whitmore). 
Notes. —Dr. Bancroft says of this species : “ This is rather a 
rare species in the vicinity of Brisbane, at any rate; it is a biting 
mosquito, produces a shrill note altogether different from the 
hum of other mosquitoes. When resting the hind legs are cocked 
up and bent forwards. It oviposits in a long narrow raft,* jet 
black in colour and very like that of Culex tigripes ; the larvae 
are found occasionally in water-butts and tanks ; in appearance 
and habits they resemble those of S. fasciata and S. notoscripta, 
feeding and spending most of their time at the bottom, in contra¬ 
distinction to Culex larvae, which live for the greater portion of 
their life on the surface. Grey in colour, black bristles, brown 
head, black, and joint and short black siphon.” 
Ttjpe in the British Museum. 
Stegomyia minuta. Theobald (1901). 
Mono. Culicid. I., 319 (1901). 
Salisbury, Mashonaland. 
Type in the British Museum. 
Stegomyia tripunctata. Theobald (1908). 
Rec. Ind. Mus. II., pt. iii., No. 30, 268 (1908), Theobald. 
Head black with three silvery white spots, one median in front 
and one on each side, proboscis and palpi black. Thorax black 
with dull bronzy scales ; prothoracic lobes white scaled. Abdomen 
black with basal lateral white spots which meet on the dorsum 
on the fifth and sixth segments to form basal bands. Legs black, 
unbanded. 
9 . Head black, clothed with flat black scales except for a 
snowy-white area in front between the eyes and a patch on each 
* This is a most unusual character in Stegomyia, the eggs being laid 
separately in all that have so far been traced. A further examination of the 
type may show that the squamose characters exclude it from this genus. 
