C. S. Ludlow.
Philippine Mosquitoes.
Psyche 21(1):30-32, 1914.

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30 Psyche [February
other words, there was a high rate of selection of white flowers during the period when the flowers were pollinated at night, but there was no selection of colors when daylight pollinations were made by the Hymenoptera and Diptera that frequented the plants. PHILIPPINE MOSQUITOES.
BY C. S. LUDLOW
Army Medical Museum, Washington, D. C.
Myzomyia flavirostris sp. nov.
Female: Head dark, covered with dark brown and white forked scales, and white long slender scales on the vertex, extending forward as a long tuft; antennae brown, verticels and pubescence white, basal joint brown but not so darkas the cephalic scales; palpi dark brown the ultimate joint white, except, a very narrow brown basal band extending as a tiny brown baud on the apex of the penultimate, a broad white band on the base of the penultimate and the apex of the following joint, the remainder of the organ dark brown, except a very narrow white band, at the pre- ceding joint, very heavily scaled at the base; proboscis light scaled on the apical half, often not noticeable from the dorsal aspect, and always more marked on the ventral side, the proximal half dark brown, very heavily scaled at the base; clypeus dark brown; eyes dark brown.
Thorax: prothoracic lobes dark, with brown chaetae; mesonotum has the median third of a light brown, sometimes almost yellowish, covered with the fine tomenturn so often found on Anophelines, and sparsely with golden brown hair-like scales, a well marked dark median line broadening so as to cover the "bare space," and in Jiome specimens suggestions of other laterad dark lines, a bunch of long white slightly curved scalesextending over the nape; the lateral parts are a rich dark brown. Scutellum dark brown in the median portion lighter laterad; metanotum dark; pleurae almost black.
The abdomen is very dark, almost black, with scattered brown to golden brown hairs.
Legs: the coxae and trochanters are dark, covered with small dark scales and chsetse; femora of the fore legs light brown, tibiae and tarsi darker brown, ungnes simple; mid-femora light brown, the rest of the leg dark brown, but the terminal tarsal joint appearing fawn colored in some lights, ungues simple; hind femora light brown, tibiae much darker, especially toward the apex, and some specimens showing a tiny white apical spot, all the tarsal joints brown, sometimes with a suggestion of apical light spots on the third and fourth joints. Wings, clear, covered with brown and light yellow scales. The costa as a whole
is dark with five small light spots, one at the apex of the first long vein; one, extend- ing on the first long, about on a line with the base of the second posterior cell, the third, also extending on the first is well interior to a line through the base of the fork of the fifth long vein, and the last is a tiny spot between this and the root of -the wing. The wing field has many small spots the third long vein is mostly light, Pu&e 21:30.11 (1914). hup ttpsychu einclub orgt21t21-030 html



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with a small dark spot at its apex and one near its base; there are light spots at the fourchette of each ford cell; the stem and lower fork of the fifth long vein are mostly light with a dark spot at its apex, and one at the base of the cell; the distal half of the upper fork of the fifth long vein is white with a very small dark spot at the very apex, the sixth vein is dark; the wing-fringe is dark except for light spot at the apices of all the long veins but the second and sixth. Halteres with light stem and dark knob.
Length: about 3mm.
. Habitat: Camp Wilhelm, Tayabas, P. I.
Taken: November.
I am indebted to Dr. Malcolm Watson, Klang, F. M. S., for call- ing my attention to this species. The wing and palpal markings greatly resemble the dark form of funesta, and with the hand lens the light proboscis is not sufficiently marked to call attention to it, and I had laid it aside as being probably this form of a species so common on the Philippine Islands.
Popea palawanensis sp. nov.
Female: Head black, mostly covered with dark brown flat scales, a white border around the eyes, and a narrow median portion of curved scales, white at the vertex and brown at the nape; antennae dark brown, verticels and pubescence brown, basal joint dark with a few slender hair-like brown scales on the median aspect; palpi about one fourth the length of the proboscis, dark brown; proboscis dark brown, eyes dark brown; clypeus brown.
Thorax dark; prothoracic lobes heavily covered with white flat scales and dark brown chsetse; mesonotum dark brown with silvery white slender curved scales very closely set to form a white spot covering the cephalic third, the caudad edge is irregular, and reminds one of the "solid W" described for Lepidotomyia magna Theo; the remainder of the rnesonotum covered with slender curved, rich, dark brown scales, except an irregular white spot just cephalad of the wing joint, and white scales forming a line around and extending on the "bare space"; Scutellum dark, partly denuded, the mid-lobe having a few white flat scales in the median line, a few white rather broad curved scales laterad of the flat ones, and then brown curved scales. The lateral lobes are denuded, except for one white and a few brown curved scales. There have apparently been five marginal chsetse on the mid and three on the lateral lobes; pleura dark brown with five or six large bunches of silvery white flat scales; metanotum dark.
Abdomen covered with dark brown scales except for rather heavy basal lateral brilliant white spots. On the venter are also heavy basal brilliant white spots sometimes extending as basal white bands, and there are on several segments, bunches of very long brown scales, so much constricted on the basal part as to appear almost petioled.
Legs brown; cox8 and trochanters testaceous with a few white scales; the fore femora white on the ventral aspect nearly. to the apex, fore tibia brown only on the dorsal aspect, the ventral and lateral aspects brilliantly yellowish white; all the tarsi



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