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Genus Stegomyia. 
St. Vincent) (25. 5. 1899); New Amsterdam, British Guiana 
(E. Rowland) (4. 4. 1899); British Honduras (Brit. Mus. Coll.) ; 
Panama (Mallet) (22. 9. 1899); Para, Brazil (W. A. Churchill) 
(11. 2. 1899); Demerara (Quelch) (16. 6. 1899); Rio de Janeiro 
(Lutz) ; Sierra Leone (Austen) ; Lagos (Austen) ; Nairobi, 
Zanzibar (Mackinder); Durban (Christophers) (7. and 11. 1. 
1899); Senegambia (Rees) (78); Belize ; Upper Burma (Watson); 
Bermuda (E. Harvey) (16. 8. 1899); Tokyo, Japan (C. H. B. 
Wood) (3. 8. 1899); Gibraltar (Birt) (22. 9. 1899); Italy 
(Ficalbi); Savannah (Wiedemann) ; Georgia, U.S.A. (Howard) ; 
Queensland (Bancroft); N. S. Wales (Skuse); Victoria (French) ; 
Mashonaland (Marshall); Mombasa (J. O. McKay) (76); 
Spain (Schiner) ; Portugal (Meigen, Macquart, &c.); England 
(Stephens (?)); Cuba, Porto Rico (Fabricius). 
Regarding America generally, Professor Howard writes me : 
“ It is found in considerable numbers in the southern portions 
of this country, and as far north on the Atlantic coast as Virginia 
beach, Virginia.” 
Time of capture. —Brazil (Churchill, March 13 and 19); 
Sierra Leone, Lagos (Austen, August) ; Durban (Christophers, 
January 7 to 11); Japan (August); Bermuda (Harvey, July) ; 
Jamaica (Cundall, August); Gibraltar (Birt, August); Queens¬ 
land (November); Grenada (February) ; Belize (September) ; 
Burma (December) ; Mashonaland (April). 
Observations. —This is a very distinct and common species, 
easily told by the thoracic ornamentation and by the last hind 
tarsal joint being white. It is almost cosmopolitan, but does not 
appear to occur in cold regions. As one would expect, it is 
subject to considerable variation in colour and size, especially in 
regard to the colour of the thorax. Major Ross speaks of it as 
the Brindled Mosquito, Captain James as the Tiger Mosquito, 
and this I find the most general popular name. 
Fasciata is one of the most troublesome and annoying 
mosquitoes in tropical and sub-tropical climates ; both £ and 9 
bite, according to one correspondent (McKay). The bite is very 
irritating. This is one of the mosquitoes that forms the inter¬ 
mediate host of the haematozoon Filaria Bancroftii, although 
it also occurs in C. fatigans, Wiedemann, and in Anopheles , as 
has recently been shown by Captain James. 
The Yellow Fever parasite is disseminated by this gnat. 
St. George Gray in a letter to Mr. Austen says: “ Culex 
tcieniatus (= fasciatus) is a most vicious biter in the early 
