The Philippine journal of science. [Vol. 57, no. 1]

57, 1

Baisacs: Philippine Mosquitoes, II

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Postnotum dark brown; pleura with some pale patches. A line
of bluish white scales in: front of wing root extending to posterior margin of ppn. Pleural line of similar scales from apn
broadening on sternopleura where it is formed by five or six
rows of scales. These scales are well-spread and hardly overlap
one another, whereas in argyrotarsis (parangensis) there are
only three rows of scales, which overlap each other considerably.
Wings: In both specimens at hand there are one or two white
scales at base of remigium, and the extent of white scaling on
vein 6, that is, judging from the description given for argyrotarsis (parangensis) by Dyar and Shannon (1925), is about as
much as in argyrotarsis. In one specimen two white scales are
mixed with the dark ones on the apical dark half of the stem
of vein 5. Vein 6 in one specimen has only a single white scale
at about the apex of the basal third, the rest towards the apex
dark-scaled, towards the base bare. In the other specimen
there is one white scale at about the same situation on vein 6,
but basal to it is a single dark scale, the remaining portion
basally being bare, and apically dark-scaled. Abdominal tergites
dark brown; sternites mainly pale. Legs mostly dark-scaled,
undersides of femora pale. Last two hind tarsal segment white,
the third pale beneath throughout its entire length, but dark
above from base to a short distance before the apex.
Larva.-Head a little longer than broad, brown. Clypeal
spines short, stout, pointed. A somewhat flattened, spinous, 3 -branched; B and C much more flattened than A, dark, spinous
laterally, simple; d flattened, spinous, simple; e long, slender,
2- or 3-branched apically; oo finely feathered, 5- or 6-branched.
Antenna as illustrated. Abdomen: lh I and II developed. Segment VIII with eight or nine comb teeth, which are pointed,
fringed. Siphon with eleven or twelve pecten teeth of the
usual type. Tuft scantily feathered, 11 to 16-branched, its base
opposite the second most distal pecten tooth. Anal segment:
osc missing; isc 4- or 5-branched; Ih 9- to 14-branched.
URANOTAENIA TESTACEA Theobald.
Uranotaenia testacea THEOBALD, Ann. Mus. Nat. Hung. 3 (1905)
113.
Habits.-Larva breeds in forest stream; habits of adults unknown.
Distribution.-Rizal waterworks, Camp 320, Manila (Banks);
Tungcong Manga, San Jose, Bulacan (Baisas).