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213Issued 15. February 1959!•30. CULICIDAE AND HAEMATOZOA FROMBELLONA AND RENNELVBYMARSHALL LAIR02 and ELIZABETH LAIR0 3INTRODUCTIONLAMBERT (1931) was the first to collect mosquitoes on Bellona and Rennel!. His specimenswere identified as follows by Dr. FRANCIS M. ROOT of the Johns HopkinsUniversity. -BI:LLONA Aedes I'uriegatus.AMe,\ alhilahris.~!'INELL Aedes variegatu.I' and A, variegatus \oar. hebrideus.Aedes alhilabris.Culex (Lophoceratomyia) hilli var. buxtoni.Aedes (Stegomyia) I'ariegatus (DoleschaII. 1858) and A. scuteffar~s (Walker. 1859)are synonymous. the latter name being the Yalid one as the former had been appliedto a European mosquito befJre DOLESCHALL used it (EDWARDS. 1932). STO,\E (1947)showed that A. I'ariegatus var. /uhrideus Edwards, 1926. must also fall as a synonymof A. scutellaris, which is referred to herein by the name employed by MARKS (1954).A. scutellaris scutellaris. The systematic position of Aedes (Finlaya I alhilabri.lEdwards, 1925. remained unaltered. hut there has been some confusion oyer tnestatus of the third mosquito listed. This insect's subgeneric name has been emendedto Lophoceraomria, to the fraudatrix group of which it belongs (EDWARDS. 1932).I ha\oe previously followed PERRY (1946) in referring C. hilli buxtolli to C. fraudatri.\(Theobald. 1905). but as the subgenus is to be delt with in a comprehensi\ e accountof South Pacific mosquitoes now being prepared by Dr. JOH' N. BEL"T\. the speciesin question is simply designated LopllOceraomyia sp. for present purposes ...1.lIopheles (My=omyia) farauti Laveran. 1902. recorded from Lake Te-Nggano.Renn~U, by BLACK (1952). was the only addition to the above list prior to thepresent survey.I. All material collected during a malaria research project initiated by the Royal New Zealand AirForce and supported by funds from the N. Z. Department of Scientific and r ndustrial Research.2. Institute of Parasitology. McGill Uni\ersity. Macdonald College. Macdonald College P.O .. Que.,Canada. Formerly of the R.N.Z.A.F.3. Formerly Technical Assistant, N. Z. D. S. & I. R.