'2'1 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



them. Dr. Dyar's suppositions as to the manner in which any error may 

 have occurred are, therefore, entirely faulty, and he has apparently 

 forgotten that I consulted him on this species, and he advised its publi- 

 cation. 



I am myself, however, inclined to believe that a mistake may have 

 been made in the habitat of this specimen, and that it probably is a 

 Philippine mosquito ; just as I feel quite sure that Grabhamia Spencer ii, 

 Theob., owes its being repoited from the Philippines to my very careful 

 and interested Chinese servant, who, of course, would not realize that a 

 dead mosquito picked up in the house and placed in one of the small 

 boxes on my table could make dire confusion, so a similar interference by 

 some uninformed but well-intentioned person may account for A. per- 

 ph-xens. At all events, if an error has been made it is not due to an 

 interchange of box lids, and my own precautions are such that no trans- 

 position of the mosquitoes themselves could have taken place while in my 

 hands. 



In the February number of the Canadian ENTOMOLOGIST I described 

 a new anophelina, and referred it to Chagasia. Comparison with the 

 Chagasia in the British Museum leads me to believe it to be new, and I 

 therefore make it the type of a new genus, Calvert ia, n:uned in honour of 

 Dr. \V. J. Calvert, of St. Louis, formerly of the Medical Corps, U. S. 

 Army, at whose suggestion I began the study of Philippine mosquitoes. 



Calvertia, nov. gen. 



Head with forked scales, antenna' bearing outstanding scales on the 

 second joint and more appressed ones on the first ; thorax with curved 

 and broadly fusiform scales, not markedly outstanding laterally ; abdomen 

 with hairs, and on at least one segment bearing long flat more or less 

 spatulate scales. 



The genus lies near Chagasia. 



There have lately been received from the Philippines two new mos- 

 quitoes described below. 



Anopheles formosus, n. sp.— (Female.) 



Head brown, with light yellow or white long slender curved scales on 

 the vertex, and projecting forward in a tuft between the eyes, white forked 

 scales on the occiput, and brown forked scales laterad and ventrad ; 

 antennae dark brown, verticels and pubescence brown, basal joint 

 testaceous ; palpi brown, rather heavily scaled, the tip light, and bases of 

 penultimate and antepenultimate joints narrowly light-banded ; proboscis 



