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the bottom where they remain hidden amongst decaying vegetable matter. In 
order to collect them it is necessary to rinse out the bottom of the hollow. The 
first adult hatched on August 9. The larvae are predaceous. In my breeding 
jars I observed one of them devouring a small, reddish dipterous larva. 
K.. chrysogaster is known from Sierra Leone to Uganda. 
Armigeres argenteoventralis (Theobald) 
Dendromyia argenteoventralis Theobald, 1910, ‘Monogr. Culic.,’ V, p. 588 ( @; Obuasi, Gold Coast). 
Stegomyta argenteoventralis Edwards, 1912, Bull. Ent. Res., III, p. 12. 
Dendromyia affinis Theobald, 1910, ‘Monogr. Culic.,’ V, p. 589, fig. 256 ( @; Obuasi, Gold Coast). 
Liseria. — Du River, Camp No. 3, August 9, 1926. A few males were 
observed during the day visiting the flowers of a cauliflorous tree in the primary 
forest. 
A. argenteoventralis is known from West Africa only. 
Hodgesia sanguinae Theobald 
Hodgesia sanguinae Theobald, 1904, Jl. Trop. Med., VII, p. 17, fig. (9; Entebbe, Uganda); 
1907, ‘Monogr. Culic.,’ IV, p. 579 ( @). 
Hodgesia sanguinis Edwards, 1912, Bull. Ent. Res., III, p. 35; 1913, loc. cit., IV, p.59(@). Wig- 
glesworth, 1929, loc. cit., XX, p. 60, figs. 2a-c and 3a-c (larva and pupa). 
BELGIAN Conao. — Kinshasa (received from Dr. Duren). 
H. sanguinae is strictly West African, extending from Southern Nigeria to 
Uganda. 
The genus Hodgesia may possibly have to be placed in the tribe Sabethini. 
Aédes (Stegomyia) aegypti (Linnaeus) 
Culex aegypti Linnaeus, 1762, in Hasselquist, ‘Palestina Reise,’ p. 470. 
Stegomyia nigeria Theobald, 1901, ‘Monogr. Culic.’, I, p. 3808, Pl. XIV, fig. 56 ( 9; Bonny, 
S. Nigeria). 
The yellow fever mosquito has also been variously called Stegomyia fasciata, 
Aédes calopus, and Aédes argenteus. A full synonymy is given by H. G. Dyar 
(1922, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus., LXII, Art. 1, pp. 94-95, and 1928, ‘The Mosquitoes 
of the Americas’ p. 239). 
Liseria. — Monrovia, July 1926, Du River, Camp No. 3, August 1926, bred 
from larvae found in rain-water collected in cavities of cut trunks of trees, in 
a forest clearing, in company with larvae of Aédes apicoargenteus (Nos. 472 
and 473). Gbanga, September 1926, bred from larvae found in a bucket of 
water In camp. 
BELGIAN Coneo. — Kinshasa (bred by Dr. A. Duren). The yellow fever 
mosquito exists everywhere from the mouth of the Congo to Upper Katanga. 
Ucanpba. — Kampala, April 13, 1927, in a hotel room, biting at noon. 
At Monrovia the yellow fever mosquito is particularly abundant at the 
beginning and close of the rainy season, in April-May and October-November.! 
1 Bouet, G. 1925. ‘Une épidémie de fiévre jaune au Liberia.’ Bull. Soc. Path. Exot. Paris, XVIII, 
pp. 746-753. 
Wehrle, W. O. 1928. ‘Das Gelbfieber in Liberia 1925 und 1927.’ Arch. Schiffs- u. Tropenhyg., 
XXXII, pp. 401-406. 
