THE CANADIAN ENIOMOLOGIBT. 1G7 



NOTES ON SOME MOSQUITOES FROM NEWCASTLE, 



JAMAICA. 



BV M. GRABHAM, M. A., M. B., GOVERNMENT MEDICAL SERVICE, JAMAICA, 



WEST INDIES. 



During the summer and autumn of 1905 several small collections of 

 mosquitoes were sent to me by Major Hassard, of the Royal Army 

 Medical Corps, and Colonel Loscombe, from the Military Station at New- 

 castle, alt 4,000 feet, and more recently a number of living larvae from 

 the same locality, collected by Miss Maclaverty. The species represented 

 are as follows : 



1. Stegomyia fasciata^ Fab. 



2. Culex fatigans, Wied. 



3. Culex secutor^ Theo. 



4. Culex Hassardii, nov. sp. 



5. Howardina Wa/keri, Theo. 



6. Howardina aureostriata, nov. sp. 



7. Dendromyta, ? nov. sp. 



1. Stegomyia fasctata, Fab, — A few specimens of this form and S. 

 fascinta, Fab., sub-species Lucie?isis, Theo., were sent in one of Major 



Hassard's collections. It appears to be quite uncommon. 



2. Culex fatigans, Wied. — Specimens were received in all the 

 collections, and the larvae from rain-water barrels. 



3. Culex sccutor, Theo. — Very abundant and troublesome during the 

 day. Larvae very numerous in tanks and river-side pools. 



4. Culex Hassardii, nov. sp. — $ . Head grayish, with narrow curved 

 pale golden scales and hairs clustered thickly on the occiput and between 

 the eyes, upright forked scales on the nape, sides of the head black, eyes 

 bordered with bright white scales ; antenna^, palpi and clypeus black ; 

 proboscis black, penultimate quarter of its length banded with yellow 

 scales ; apex yellow. Thorax grayish, clothed with numerous elongated 

 spindle-shaped black and white scales ; white scales collected in two con- 

 spicuous white spots near the centre, and a broad area near the scutellum, 

 also in patches along the borders of the mesothorax, a number of long 

 black hairs especially abundant about the origin of the wings. 

 Prothoracic lobes white-scaled. (Fig. 25, 4.) Central lobe of the 

 scutellum white scaled. Lateral lobes black. Pleura black, with several 

 patches of white scales. Metanotum deep brown. Halteres with pale 

 yellow stems and knobs. Legs bluish-black, clothed with black scales 



May, 1906 " 



