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ANOPHELES BELLATOR Dyar & Knab. 



Anopheles bellator Dyar & Knab, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., xix, 160, 1906. 

 Anopheles bellator Busck, Smiths. Misc. Colls., quart, iss., lit, 58, 1908. 

 Anopheles bellator Theobald, Mon. Culic, v, 86, 1910. 



Original Description of Anopheles bellator: 



Palpi black; head black, a tuft of pale scales between the eyes. Thorax gray, with 

 four black longitudinal lines, the two nearest the middle narrower and stopping 

 short of the base, the two lateral ones attaining the scutellum; before scutellum a 

 short median black line; pleurae dark, with two white stripes. Abdomen entirely 

 dark. Costa of wing with six white spots, one basal, the last at extreme apex; 

 third vein white, with a black spot at apex and near base; fifth vein white near base 

 and at base of the fork, and a small white spot on upper branch; fringe with two 

 white spots, at lower fork of fourth vein and upper fork of fifth vein respectively. 

 Front legs with the femora with a black spot at base, a black dash at middle third 

 and two black spots at apex; tibiae dark above, with two black, nearly encircling, 

 spots at apex; first tarsal joint with a black ring near the base, second and third 

 joints black at the base, fourth and fifth entirely black. Mid legs with the femora 

 mostly black; tibiae black, white at tip; first tarsal joint black, white at tip; second 

 black at base, apical half white; third and fourth joints black, white at tip; fifth 

 black. Hind legs with femora white, black above, with a black ring at the outer 

 third; tibiae black above with two black rings toward apex; first tarsal joint black, 

 with a white apical ring and white at extreme base; second, third and fourth joints 

 black, with white apical ring; fifth joint black. 



Three specimens, Trinidad, B. W. I. (F, W, Urich; A. Busck). 



Type. Cat. No. 10,027, U. S. Nat. Mus. 



Near A. lutzii Cruz, but differs in the coloration of the palpi and legs. According 

 to Dr. Lutz, A. lutzii was first described by Dr. Oswald Cruz in the Brazil Medico. 

 Theobald redescribes it as a new species; but it should be credited to Cruz. 



Description of Female and Male Anopheles bellator (Larva Unknown) : 



Female. Proboscis moderate, straight, uniform; labellae long, lanceolate, 

 with fine outstanding setae ; vestiture black. Palpi as long as the proboscis, uni- 

 form, stout, roughened by long erect spatulate scales, black, a few whitish 

 scales at base of last joint. Antennae filiform, the joints subequal, rather short, 

 blackish, densely pilose; hairs of whorls sparse, black, short; tori subspherical 

 with an apical cup-shaped excavation, blackish-brown with a luteous rim. 

 Clypeus prominent, subtriangular, black, nude. Eyes black. Occiput with a 

 median groove, blackish, clothed with erect, broad, triangular black scales, a 

 few scattered white ones and a group of them in the center of vertex, a group 

 of long white hairs projecting forward between the eyes, a row of long black 

 hairs along margins of eyes. 



Prothoracic lobes small, lateral. Mesonotum narrow, elongate, gray, pruinose, 

 a pair of narrow longitudinal velvet-black stripes on the disk, between them a 

 very narrow median stripe, extending from anterior margin to posterior third, 

 outwardly from these a broader velvet-black stripe extending the entire length 

 of mesonotum and separated from lateral margins by about its own width ; the 

 gray intervals bear fine pale yellow hairs arising from small black punctures; 

 some rather broad, suberect yellowish-white scales along anterior and lateral 

 margins. Scutellum collar-like, grayish, with long dark brown marginal bristles. 

 Postnotum elliptical, prominent, dark brown, nude. PleurjB blackish-brown 

 with two pale transverse bars, coxa; luteous, with fine hairs and small patches 

 of white scales. 



Abdomen subcylindrical, depressed, tip truncate, brownish-black, without 

 scales, rather evenly clothed with numerous fine yellowish hairs. 



Wings (plate 41, fig. 9) moderate, hyaline; petiole of second marginal cell 

 shorter than its cell, that of second posterior cell longer than its cell ; basal cross- 

 vein distant about its own length from anterior cross-vein; outstanding scales 

 of veins broadly linear, black with white scales in spots as follows : four on the 

 costa, five on first vein, all except the first opposite those on the eosta, a small 

 spot at base of third vein and a very long one at middle, a long spot in the middle 

 of fifth vein not involving its upper branch, one near its base and a small one on 

 upper branch ; fringe dusky, with pale spots at lower branch of second, lower 



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