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IS Wings with dark brown scales, with metallic reflections; stem of njover one third of its length. Coxae yellow-brown with numerous silvery, broadened scales on front and mid-, pale but not silvery scales on hind ones; legs dark brown with purple shine, except the hind femora which have a narrow line of pale scales. Abdomen with dorsum coveredwith dark brown scales with purple shine, venter with silvery scales with bluish iridescence, which may turn to yellowish in dried specimens; T II with a large silvery white patch; T IV, and VI with a basal silvery white band broken up medianly. Male. This differs from the female in having the antennae slighty plumose, T IV, V and VI only slightly silvery marked. LP.RVX (Fig. 10). The followin g description is after BRUG (rgjr), who was not quite certain of the correct association of larva and adult. The most striking character is the Fig. 10. ‘Topo~zyin ar~el22eovel2tvnlis, details of larva: (0,) head, (t)) modified maxilla, (G) detail of (b) more enlarged, (d) lateral hair on abdominal segment I, (e) broom-like hair on abd. seg. III, (f) distal segments (after BRUG). appendz.ges of the maxillae (see note below) which are flexible, and visible from above if the larva is viewed from the lateral side. On III--T’11 of the abdomen the stellate hairs are replaced by paired, branched hairs, the branches nearly parallel, giving the impression of being broom-like; these brooms are closely and finely frayed on III, on the other segments hardly at all. Most of the unpaired hairs on the ventral side of the siphon have developed into strong, long spines, the apical hairs are unchanged. Dorsally there are two pairs of
hairs, the apical pair being finely fringed at tip. Xinute spines at distal margin of anal segment. Anal lobes very long and narrow. This larva has often been found in breeding places from which nqelzteowztvnlis adults were reared. This is the only evidence we have of the possible relation between larva and adult. A70fe. The maxillae are mouth parts of larvae, otherwise not mentioned in this synopsis, lying on the ventral side. BIO~OMICS. Sfales, females and larvae were collected from CoZocnsin leaf ax&, one larva from an overblown Rn~esin nmoldii Aower (altitude about TOO m) ; adults were taken in the immediate neighbourhood of jungle streams (Leicester IgoS). DISTRIBUTIOS. Sumatra. Topomyia @acilis Leicester IgoS The last three hind tarsal joints are largely dark beneath; the palpi entirely dark scaled; nf small, much less than 4 times as long as its stem; these tarsal, palpal and wing characters it has in common with T. nvgmteowztrnlis. The silvery mesonotal stripe runs all over the mesonotum and continues on the scutellum. Female. Head: Black scaled with a large silvery white patch on the vertex and some white scales laterally; bristles along eye- margin, vertical bristles black, Torus black, nude, fs blackish-brown with black, verticillate hairs. Palpi and proboscis black scaled, Thorax. A@ with silvery white elongated scales. Mesonotum dark brown to blackish with a silvery white median line of broadly oval scales running from anterior margin onto mid-lobe of scutellum. Remaining scales of me- dorsal ventral sonotum narrow, curved, ~,a. II. Topomyia gvncilis, details of larva: (n) head, (b) distal dark brown. Laterally on segments, (c) spine at base of lateral thoracic hairs (after BRUG). mid-lobe, and on lateral lobes of scutellum dark brown scales. Pleura dark brown with broad white elliptical . scales. I;S7ings dark brown scaled; nf with its base nearer to wing base than that of fif; stem of nf more than 1/3 of the length of nf. Legs dark brown but coxae ochraceous with silvery scales and femora silvery beneath. Abdomen dark dorsally, venter silvery. No spots or bands. Male. This is only distinguishable from closely related Topomyin species by the differences in the terminalia. I9
Page 1: ROYAL TROPICAL INSTITUTE AMSTERDAM
Page 5 and 6: ROYAL TROPICAL INSTITUTE AMSTERDAM
Page 7: Preface . . . . . Introduction . .
Page 11 and 12: SYNOPSIS OF A HUNDRED COMMON NON-AN
Page 13 and 14: Tergites and ste~zites. The abdomin
Page 15 and 16: Collectiqzg of adult mosqztitoes ma
Page 17 and 18: may be sought under the Culici~i as
Page 19 and 20: muscles should be split very carefu
Page 21 and 22: tz often mainly white, but sometime
Page 23 and 24: Tripteroides (Tripteroides) aranoid
Page 25 and 26: --- Male. Similar to female except
Page 27: larva has the sTer’cra1 hairs of
Page 31 and 32: ADULT. Female. Head dark with a pat
Page 33 and 34: similar Urmotaexia vzicam in the ab
Page 35 and 36: BIO~OMICS. Breeding places usually
Page 37 and 38: the clypeus by not more than half i
Page 39 and 40: emainder of the lateral aspect cove
Page 41 and 42: about one-fifth the length of the p
Page 43 and 44: LARVA (Fig. 19). Head large, dark b
Page 45 and 46: apically covered with small lvhite,
Page 47 and 48: subapical hairs, long, branched, so
Page 49 and 50: abdominal segment of female large,
Page 51 and 52: on sternopleuron and mesepimeron ar
Page 53 and 54: on upper surface golden yellow, spe
Page 55 and 56: surface are more numerous than on t
Page 57 and 58: speckling of yellow, broad, asymmet
Page 59 and 60: are branches; C and a still smaller
Page 61 and 62: upper surface, and narrow on under
Page 63 and 64: and dark brown scales. Palpi less t
Page 65 and 66: Wings. Veins speckled with yellow a
Page 67 and 68: MALE. Antenna plumose, apical and s
Page 69 and 70: Aedes (Mucidus) alternans Westwood
Page 71 and 72: dark brown, forked scales in the ce
Page 73 and 74: of small, white patches on each ter
Page 75 and 76: RIONOMICS. Larvae were found in lea
Page 77 and 78: single. Ventral brush of ten multip
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DISTRIBUTIOS. Saparua, Xew Guinea,
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LARKA. Unknown. BIOXOMICS. A specie
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B; e with z bare branches, moderate
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turn partly or entirely divided by
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with broad, apical, black band, sev
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matter, To the vegetable breeding p
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was generally observed to be a very
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FEMALE. Head. Occiput medianly clot
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Tarsal banding of hind legs in the
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length, two to four frayed branches
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Aedes (Aedimorphus) imprimens Walke
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BIOXOMICS. Larvae were found in uns
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Aedes (Diceromyia) iyengari Edwards
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ase and joins the pale basal latera
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I The other lesser sub-genera of th
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nape and difficult to detect a few
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LxRv_~. This is very much like the
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Armigeres (Armigeres) confusus Edwa
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Armigeres (Leicesteria) annulipalpi
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Culex (Lutzia) fuscanus Wiedemann 1
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ands. Abdomen : Tergites dark brown
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Subgenus Mochthogenes Edwards 1930
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like process at base of each palp,
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&hLE. Head. Palpi slightly less tha
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trally near acus; single tooth pale
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BIONOJIICS. Larvae were collected i
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FENALE. Head. Proboscis brownish bl
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femora have the speckling sometimes
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length of the papillae depends on t
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nae about as long as the head, slig
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covering the apex of the preceding
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DISTRIBUTION. New Guinea (Anggi lak
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countered where the mosquito was ab
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IO II I2 I3 11 15 16 17 18 I9 20 21
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i\;ot such a large mosquito, anteri
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78 79 Black species with snow-white
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IO II 12 13 14 15 I6 17 18 23 24 25
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50 51 52 53 54 5.5 56 57 58 59 60 6
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ALPHABETICAL IXDEX Names printed in
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sternopleural bristles (hairs), 2 s
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