ANOPHELES MACULIPE8 991 



the fifth and the lower branch of the fourth and between its upper branch and the 

 third (remainder damaged); first sub-marginal cell longer and narrower than the 

 second posterior cell, its base considerably nearer the base of the wing than that of 

 the latter; mid-cross vein about its own length nearer the base of the wing than the 

 supernumerary, the posterior not quite half its length distant from the mid; the 

 supernumerary is just beneath the junction of the sub-costal and costal; the black 

 wing scales from two pronounced black patches on the costa, and a third less promi- 

 nent one may be noticed; haltered with bright brown stems and jet black knobs 

 with some grey scales. 



Length. 6.5 mm. 



Habitat. Sao Paulo, Brazil (Lutz) ; Trinidad (Urich). 



Observations. Described from a single 5 sent me by Dr. Lutz as a new Cyclo- 

 leppteron by mistake. It is a very marked and beautiful species, with much banded 

 and speckled mid and hind legs. The wings are very dark, and the large number of 

 minute yellow costal spots is very characteristic. 



I cannot make out the structure of the clypeus with any degree of certainty, 

 but from what I can see in this single specimen it is of very peculiar form. 



It bears a general resemblance to Cycloleppteron mediopunctatus, but can be 

 told by the absence of inflated wing scales and the different positions of the cross- 

 veins and fork-cells. It stings after sunset, and is most common in the littoral. 

 It is almost certainly a malaria bearer, writes Dr. Lutz. A specimen was sent also 

 whilst this volume was in the press from Trinidad, and others from Brazil. 



Descbiption of Female of Anopheles maculipes (Male Unknown): 



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

 with fine outstanding setie; vestiture black, roughened toward base. Palpi as 

 long as the proboscis, uniform, clothed with roughened, erect, long spatulate 

 scales, black, white ones irregularly intermixed, rings of white scales at bases of 

 last two joints and at middle of long joint. Antennge filiform, the joints sub- 

 equal, pale, black and slightly thickened at base, densely pilose ; hairs of whorls 

 sparse, short, black ; tori subspherical, with a cup-shaped apical excavation, 

 blackish brown, pruinose, with ovate white scales on outer side. Clypeus broad, 

 rounded triangular, blackish, pruinose, nude. Eyes narrowly separated on the 

 vertex, black. Occiput blackish, densely clothed with erect, rather broad, trun- 

 cate black scales, some pale ones anteriorly toward the center, a row of recumbent, 

 lanceolate white scales along eye-margins, a group of long yellowish white hairs 

 projecting forward between the eyes ; hairs along eye-margins coarse, black. 



Prothoracic lobes small, clothed with erect, spatulate black scales above, 

 smaller white scales below, and with a few coarse black bristles. Mesonotum 

 narrow, elongate, brownish gray pruinose, irregularly mottled with deep brown 

 dots, a pair of indistinct, narrow longitudinal bare stripes on anterior half of 

 disk, a pair of broader bare stripes well outward on posterior half, a black spot 

 at their anterior ends near lateral angles, a large black spot basally on ante- 

 scutellar area; vestiture of fine pale yellow hairs arising from small black 

 punctures, some long narrow white scales intergrading with the hairs along the 

 margin anteriorly, Scutellum collar-like, gray pruinose, with a large black 

 spot in the middle continuous with that on mesonotum, clothed with pale hairs 

 and brown marginal bristles. Postnotum elliptical, prominent, reddish brown, 

 nude. Pleurae and coxae pale grayish pruinose, with large blackish spots, fine 

 hairs and small patches of white scales. 



Abdomen subcylindrical, depressed, truncate at tip, brownish black, dorsally 

 clothed rather evenly with scattered fine pale yellow hairs, a series of tufts of 

 outstanding black spatulate scales at apical angles of segments ; a few scattered 

 pale scales on disk of seventh and eighth segments, the latter with a median 

 apical tuft of broad yellowish white scales; venter with large broad white scales, 

 particularly along lateral margins. 



Wings moderate, hyaline ; second marginal cell much longer than its petiole, 

 second posterior cell hardly longer than its petiole; basal cross-vein about its 

 own length from anterior cross-vein ; outstanding scales of veins narrowly ovate 

 to lanceolate, predominatingly black and with small patches of white ones; 

 several large black spots along the costa, formed by the massing of black scales, 

 one at basal third involving subcostal and first veins, a larger semicircular one 



