160 Dyar and Knab — Some American Mosquitoes. 



118 specimens, Stanford University, California (Isabel McCracken) ; San 

 Diego, Sissons and Thrall, California (Dyar & Caudell) ; Portland, Oregon 

 (R. P. Carrie) ; Revelstoke, B. C. (H. G. Dyar) ; Boise, Idaho (J. M. Aid- 

 rich) ; Lehi, Utah (\V. A. Hooker). 



Ti/pe.— Cat. No. 10,028, U. S. Nat. Mus. 



Anopheles atropos sp. nov. 



Deep black ; thorax obscurely lined with violaceous, especially posteiiorly. 

 Head, abdomen and legs black, no markings on the pleurae. AVing scales 

 outstanding, uniform, not forming spots, though a little thicker at the usual 

 points, indicating the spottings. 



Allied to A. qiiadrimacalatus Say, but rather smaller, and deep black, not 

 brown, the abdomen without traces of the lighter bandings. 



Seven specimens, Florida Keys (Dr. Hiram Byrd). 



Type.—VM. No. 10,029, U. S. Nat. Mus. 



Anopheles bellator sp. nov. 



Palpi black ; head black, a tuft of pale scales between the eyes. Thorax- 

 gray, with four black longitudinal lines, the two nearest the middle nar- 

 rower and stopping short of the base, the two lateral ones attaining the 

 scutellum ; before scutellum a short median black line; pleurae dark, with 

 two white stripes. Abdomen entirely dark. Costa of wing with six white 

 spots, one basal, the last at extreme apex ; third vein white, with a black 

 spot at apex and near base ; fifth vein white near base and at base of the 

 fork, and a small white spot on upper branch ; fringe with two white spots, 

 at lower fork of fourth vein and upper fork of fifth vein respectively. 

 Front legs with the femora with a black spot at base, a black dash at mid- 

 dle third and two black spots at apex ; tibiae dark above, with two black, 

 nearly encircling, spots at apex ; first tarsal joint with a black ring near the 

 V)ase, second and third joints black at the base, fourth and fifth entirely 

 black. Mid legs with the femora mostly black; tibiae black, white at tip ; 

 first tarsal joint black, white at "tip : second black at base, apical half white; 

 third and fourth joints black, white at tip; fifth black. Hind legs with 

 femora white, black above, with a black ring at the outer third ; tibiae 

 black above witli two black rings toward apex ; first tarsal joint black, 

 with a white apical ring and white at extreme base ; second, third and 

 fourth joints black, with white apical ring; fifth joint black. 

 Three specimens, Trinidad, B. W. I. (F. W. Urich ; A. Busck). 

 Tupe.—Qai. No. 10,027, U. S. Nat. Mus. 



Near A. lutz'd Cruz, but differs in the coloration of the palpi and legs. 

 According to Dr. Lutz, A. lutz'd was first described by Dr. Oswald Cruz in 

 the Brazil Medico. Theobald redescribes it as a new species ; but it should 

 be credited to Cruz. 



Anopheles tarsimaculata Goeldi. 



Anopheles tarsi-maculala Goeldi, Os. Mosq. no Para, 133, 1905. 



Goeldi proposed this name as a substitute for alhipc.^ Theobald, because 

 he did not like the name. The specimens before him, from Para, Brazil, 

 are, however, not properly referable to alblpex, which is synonymous with 



