ANOPHELES APICIMACULA 995 



vein, on fifth vein near base and on its upper fork at basal cross-vein, on sixth 

 vein beyond middle and at tip. Halteres pale, with large white and black scaled 

 knobs. 



Legs long and slender, scaled with brownish-black and pale yellow, the colors 

 nearly evenly intermixed on the femora and tibiae, the yellow predominating 

 on the tarsi, which appear yellow with numerous small brown specks; hind 

 tarsi with about eight brown rings or spots on the first joint, four on the second, 

 three on the third, two on the fourth, none on the fifth. Claw formula, 0.0- 

 0.0-0.0. 



Length : Body about 4.5 mm. ; wing 4 mm. 



There are no specimens of the male in the U. S. National Museum. 



Life history and habits unknown. 



Tropical South America. 



Trinidad, West Indies (F. W. TJrich) ; Rio Xerem, State of Rio de Janeiro, 

 Brazil, June 27, 1907 (Institute Oswaldo Cruz). Reported also from States of 

 Amazonas, Bahia and Sao Paulo, Brazil (Lutz) ; Tartaria, State of Minas 

 Geraes, Cities of Sao Paulo, Santos and Taubat6, State of Sao Paulo, and many 

 localities in the State of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (Peryassu). 



We possess but a single specimen of this species from the region under con- 

 sideration. It belongs to the South American fauna, but, as it occurs in Trini- 

 dad, we are enabled to include it. Coquillett proposed the genus Nototricha, 

 with this species as the type. The specimens before him, however, were wrongly 

 identified, and are in reality Anopheles strigimacula. In determining a 

 generic type, we consider that the question of identification should not be 

 raised. We therefore cite medio punctatus as the type of Nototricha, as that 

 species is specified as the type, but quote the reference of Nototricha medio- 

 punctatus Coquillett (not Theobald) in the synonymy of Anopheles strigi- 

 macula, from which species the characters of the genus were in fact taken. The 

 larva referred to as Anopheles mediopunctatus by Dyar & Knab is really that 

 of Anopheles strigimacula, under which name the reference will be found. Our 

 specimen from Trinidad agrees in every respect with one from Brazil. 



ANOPHELES APICIMACULA Dyar & Knab. 



Anopheles macuUpes Dyar & Knab (not Theobald), Journ. N. Y. Ent. Sec, xiv, 176, 



1906. 

 Cellia macuUpes Coquillett (not Theobald), U. S. Dept. Agr., Bur. Ent, Tech. Ser. 



11, 13, 1906. 

 Anopheles apicimacula Dyar & Knab, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., xix, 136, 1906. 

 Anopheles punctimacula Dyar & Knab, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., xix, 136, 1906. 

 Anopheles apicimacula and punctimacula Busck, Smiths. Misc. Colls., quart, iss., lii, 



59, 1908. 

 Anopheles apicimacula Theobald, Mon. Culic, v, 601, 1910. 

 Anopheles punctimacula Theobald, Mon. Culic, v, 602, 1912. 

 Anopheles apicimacula and punctimacula Darling, Stud. Rel. Malaria, Isthm. Canal 



Comm., 10, 1910. 

 Anopheles apicimacula and punctimacula Jennings, Journ. Econ. Ent., v, 134, 1912. 

 Anopheles apicimacula and punctimacula Knab, Amer. Journ. Trop. Dis. & Prev. 



Med., i, 35, 36, 1913. 

 Anopheles apicimacula and punctimacula Howard, Dyar & Knab, Mosq. No. & Centr. 



Amer. & W. Ind., ii, pi. 41, figs. 4, 5, 1913. 



Original Description of Anopheles apicimacula: 



As in A. strigimacula D. & K., but with a distinct black costo-apical spot on wing. 



26 specimens, Livingston, Guatemala, May 11, 1906 (H. S. Barber); Cordoba, 

 Mexico (F. Knab); Colon Panama (A. I. Kendall); Trinidad, B. W. I. (F. W. 

 Urich). 



Type. CSit. No. 9978, U. S. Nat. Mus. 



Original Description of Anopheles punctimacula: 



As in A. strigimacula D. & K., but the last vein with a row of black dots. 

 One specimen. Colon, Panama, February 2, 1904 (W. M. Black). 

 Type. Cat. No. 9979, U. S. Nat. Mus. 



