•lii.v UI09 MUSQUITÜES OF CUBA 



Juan (Tmiillnch did iiot imlilisli aiiytliing on mosquitoes, nnd tlic 

 ouiy collection of Cuban Díptera wliick we possess belong:« tü the Gov- 

 ernment of Cuba and is to be found in the "Grundlach Museum" in the 

 Instituto of 8econdary Education of Havana. A catalogue of this col- 

 lection has been published very receutly in the Anales de la la 

 Academia de Ciencias de la Habana (Vol. Vil, 190S) l)y 

 onr frieud I)r. Pedro Valdés Ragúes, who is iu cbarge of this Museum. 

 Tliis work ineludes the eollection of mosquitoes referi'od to and the 

 "Catalogue of Cuban Díptera" by the naturalist of Kassel, whieh had 

 not l)e('n previously pul)lislied, namely: 



55. — Megarhinus formosa, (Grundlach f ). This label corresponds to 

 a rubbed speciniens in tlie same case, but in the same condition. 



330.— Anopheles stitotus. (Gundlach '¡) The labe! in the hand 

 writing of (jundlacli exists, but not the specimen. 



332. — Culex setosus. ((Jundlach 1). Tbe label exists biit the spec- 

 iiiKMi is wantiiig. 



I)r. An'sti(h's Agramontc " stales tluit lie saw in tlu' latter part 

 oí' 1!)0(), nH)S([uito wbicli, on aecount of its "stained wings, antl otliei- 

 details in size and structure" appeared to be similar to tlie Anopheles. 



In 1900, Dr. Guiteras in a paper entitlel ''Nota preliminar 

 sobre el A no ph ejes en Cuba (Revista de Medicina 

 T r (I p i (• a I, \'ol. 1, jiage 18) studied the metamorphosic evolution (»1' aii 

 anopheles which he was inclinod to believe was the Anopheles 

 costalis of Loew (ISfíB), Anopheles gambiae, of Giles 

 (1902), known today as the Pyi'etoi)horus costalis of Loew (1HH6). 



Dr. Agramonte (Progreso Médico, Havana, 1901), page 

 460) described with the ñame of Anojjheles cubensis a mosquito whicli 

 in Giles ( A H a n d b o o k o f G n a t s o r Mosquitoes, Londt)n, 

 1902, page 300) appears as Anopheles albipes (Theobald), and wliicb 

 has proven to be the Anopheles albimanus of Wiedmann, to which 

 Taylor (in the Revista de Medicina Tropical, vol. IV, 1900, 

 page, 150) gave the ñame of A r g y r i t a r s i s a 1 b i p e s . In the same 

 issue of this interesting publication (p. 160), we described a new 

 Anopheles which the entomologist E. A, Schwartz afterwards (1904) 

 found at Cayamas, 15 miles from Cienfuegos (Ouba). Tt is the Ano 

 p heles cr acia ñas (Wiedmann). 



We sliall not go into questions of classilication but will only give 

 the somewhat complicated classiñcation of T. V. Theobald, which was 

 published in 1903, and the more recent and simple of the expert ent- 

 omologistfs, Dyar and Knab, of the U, S. Department of Agriculture, 

 published. in 1908, in Samuel "W- Williston's Manual of North 

 American Díptera (New York. p. 107). 



Our aim in to set forth briefly. ü-ith uniformity; foliowing an ento- 

 mológica! classification the mosquitoe? of the diítrict where we praetice 



1) La parasitología del paludismo ex el hombf.e. Habana, 1900, p. 9S. 



