Theobald (I gro) described the mosquito Acdes (Stegomyia) pseudoscutellaris from three females from Suva, Fiji. It belongs to what is now called the scutellaris group or sub-group, a complex of closely related and very similar mosquitoes represented by many isolated island forms. The group is widespread in the Pacific area, within the tropics, and extends into the eastern part of the Oriental region. Stone and Farner (1945) summarize the distribution, and Knight and Hurlbut (1949) give the most recent list of included species. Mosquitoes from various localities in Fiji, from Samoa, the Ellice Islands, the Tokelau Islands and the islands of south-eastern Polynesia as far east as the Marquesas and Man-gareva Islands, have since been identified as A. ‘pseudoscuteZZaris ’ and have been the subject of extensive research. Bahr (rgr 2), in Fiji, proved A. ‘ pseudoscutellaris ’ to be the principal intermediary host of non-periodic filariasis, and thus drew attention to its medical and economic importance. O’Connor (1923) showed that A. ‘ pseudoscutellaris ’ played a similar role in Samoa and in the Ellice and Tokelau Islands; McKenzie (1925) did likewise in the Cook Islands; and Byrd et al. (1945) repeated the observations in Samoa. Buxton and
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