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to be an Anopheles (as restricted by Theobald), and none of that genus has 

 been received from the P. I., I have decided to publish it. 



Atiopheles perplexens, n. sp. — (Female.) — -Head dark, with dark 

 brown and white fork scales, the latter nearer the vertex, and a heavy tuft 

 of slender, long curved white scales projecting cephalad between the eyes ; 

 antennae dark brown, verticels and pubescence dark, basal joint brown; palpi 

 dark, covered with dark brown scales, a small tuft of white hairs at the 

 very tip ; proboscis dark with dark brown scales, tip testaceous ; clypeus 

 dark, eyes brown. 



Thorax: prothoracic lobes testaceous, with dark hairs ; mesonotum 

 with broad, light median stripe, covered with white " frost," and white 

 hairs arranged so as to suggest a "part," a dark median line extending 

 half way to the scutellum, and two dark lateral bordering lines ; more or 

 less of a tuft of these hairs at the nape ; laterad the dorsum is dark brown, 

 with dark brown hairs ; pleura brown ; scutellum testaceous, "frosty," 

 with brown bristles ; metanotum dark brown. 



Abdomen dark brown, with light hairs (no scales). 



Legs : coxae and trochanters light, mostly light scaled ; femora 

 ventrally light scaled, and extreme tips of femora and tibise ochraceous, 

 remainder of legs dark brown ; ungues simple. 



Wings clear, and rather heavily clothed with dark brown scales, 

 except a few small ochraceous spots — one on the costa, just interior to a 

 line drawn through the junction of the branches of the fork cells, a second 

 tiny spot at the junction of the first long vein with the costa, extending a 

 tiny bit on the long vein, and two very small faint light spots on the forks 

 of the fourth long vein, also a tiny fringe spot at the distal end of the third 

 long vein ; halteres with light stems and fuscous knobs. 



Length, 2.-5-3 ™"^- Habitat, Camp Roosevelt, Mt. Gretna, Pa. 

 Taken August 25, igo6. 



This interesting species was sent by Capt. E. B. Whitiemore, Asst. 

 Surg. U. S. Army, and, as will be seen from the description, bears a closer 

 resemblance to tropical Anophelina than to those so far reported from the 

 U. S., but as the group it most closely resembles has abdominal scales and 

 rather broader wing-scales it cannot be referred to it. 



It seems wise to call attention to some variations occurring in 

 Philippine mosquitoes. Among the Myzomyia Ludlowii., Theob., from 

 the Province of Batan, Luzon, and in some collections sent from the 

 southern islands, come specimens showing much more extended speckling 



