840 MOSQUITOES OF NORTH AMERICA 



Taboga Island, Panama (P. P. Preston) ; San Pablo, Canal Zone, Panama, 

 May 7, 1907 (A. Busck) ; Pedro Miguel, Canal Zone, Panama, May 29, 1907 (A. 

 Busck) ; La Boca, Canal Zone, Panama, June 12, 1907 (A. Busck) ; Colon, 

 Panama (A. Busck) ; Ancon, Canal Zone, Panama, November 23, 1907 (A. H. 

 Jennings) ; Bas Obispo, Canal Zone, Panama, December 12, 1907 (A. H. 

 Jennings) ; Panama City, Panama, December 4, 1907 (A. H. Jennings) ; Porto 

 Bello, Panama, January 21, 1908 (A. H. Jennings) ; Gatun, Canal Zone, 

 Panama, March 12, 1908 (A. H. Jennings) ; Miraflores, Canal Zone, Panama, 

 December 10, 1907 (A. H. Jennings) ; Cedros, Trinidad, June 18, 1905 (A. 

 Busck) ; St. Joseph, Trinidad, June 12, 1905 (A. Busck) ; Port of Spain, Trini- 

 dad, June 11, 1905 (A. Busck) ; Montserrat, Trinidad, July 4, 1905 (A. 

 Busck) ; New Amsterdam, British Guiana, May, 1907 (J. Aiken) ; Omai, British 

 Guiana (K. S. Wise) ; Georgetown, British Guiana (E. D. Rowland) ; Para- 

 maribo, Dutch Guiana (H. Polak) ; Guayaquil, Ecuador (F. Campbell) ; Maceio, 

 Alagoas, Brazil, December, 1911 (G. A. Waring) ; Sao Paulo, Brazil (A. Lutz) ; 

 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, July 19, 1907 (0. Cruz) ; Campinas, Brazil, January 22, 

 1902 (A. Hempel) ; Hilo, Hawaii, April 5, 1902 (H. W. Henshaw) ; Kaiwiki, 

 Hawaii, 1700 ft. (W. A. Ashmead) ; Honolulu, Oahu, March 21, 1901 (C. L. 

 Marlatt) ; Apia, Samoa, November, 1904 (J. T. Floyd) ; Okayama, Japan, May 



5, 1901 (C. L. Marlatt) ; Manila, Luzon, January, 1904 ( ) ; Iloilo, Iloilo, 



Panay, December 22, 1903 (G. W. McCoy) ; Cebu ( ) ; Guam (C. P. 



Bagg) ; Hagonoy, Bulucan, Luzon, September 1, 1902 (C. S. Ludlow) ; Iligan, 

 Mindanao, January, 1902 (P. B. Grubbs) ; Santa Cruz, Luzon (C. S. Ludlow) ; 

 Samal, Butaan (through C. S. Ludlow) ; Catalato, Mindanao, October, 1906 

 (C. H. Halliday) ; Parang, Mindanao (through C. S. Ludlow) ; Ormoc, Leyte, 

 July 1, 1906 (C. H. Halliday) ; Soekaboemi, Java, December 20, 1901 (C. L. 

 Marlatt) ; Garoet, Java, December 9, 1901 (C. L. Marlatt) ; Singapore, Straits 

 Settlements, November 18, 1901 (C. L. Marlatt); Ismailia, Egypt (W. C. 

 Gorgas) ; Malaga, Spain, December, 1908 (C. Visich). Also reported from 

 numerous other localities in the warmer portions of both hemispheres. 



The earliest name for this species, Aedes argenteus (Poiret), has come to our 

 notice too late for incorporation in this work, Fabricius, in 1805, named the 

 species Culex fasciatus, but other species had been previously described under 

 the same name by 0. F. Miiller (Fauna Insectorum Fridrichsdalina, p. 87, 

 1764), and Meigen (Klassif. u. Beschr. d. europ. zweifl. Ins., p. 4, 1804). The 

 first use of the name Culex fasciatus has been generally credited to de Villers 

 (1789) on the authority of R. Blanchard (Les Moustiques, p. 250, 1905). 

 E. E. Austen has recently shown that a mosquito was first described under this 

 name by Miiller as above cited and that de Villers merely quoted this descrip- 

 tion (Yellow Fever Bureau Bull., ii, 3, 1912). We use here the name Aedes 

 calopus (Meigen). 



C. S. Banks has redescribed typical Aedes calopus under the name Stegomyia 

 fasciata persistans, having found slight differences between his specimens and 

 published figures ; these differences, however, do not exist in nature. Consider- 

 able variation occurs in the coloring of the scale vestiture, particularly of the 

 mesonotum. The ground-color of the mesonotimi varies from deep brown to 

 golden brown and rust- red, with varying degrees of submetallic luster; in some 

 specimens the pair of narrow median silvery stripes is obsolete or nearly so. 

 Sometimes the mesonotal ground-color is very light grayish or brownish, with 

 strong metallic luster, so that the typical silvery markings are hardly discerni- 

 ble. Theobald notes purple scales on the scutellum of some Australian speci- 

 mens. The ground-color of the abdomen is more constant, but specimens occur 

 in which there is a pale, submetallic, median longitudinal stripe and in still 

 others all the black scales, even on the legs, are replaced by such pale ones. 

 Variations in the tarsal ornamentation have been also noted. None of these 

 variations appear to have the character of local races or subspecies and we 

 do not consider them worthy of the varietal names introduced by some authors. 



