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dai-k pateh joining the seutellura which is carried ou to its raid lobe, the rest of 

 the scutellum being slaty-grey, with a few narrow hair-like golden scales; me- 

 tanotiira deep brown, with a median dark liue; pleiirae brown; with a grey sheen 

 in places. 



Abdomen blaek, with deep bro^Mi aud goldeu-brown hairs, the dorsum 

 nude, but each segnient with an apical lateral tuft of black seales and a few 

 vvhite oues on the last few tufts; ventser with many white and black flat scales, 

 and also to some extent the apical segment. Legs deep brown, banded and spot- 

 ted with white; fore legs missing; mid legs with the femora, tibiae, metatarsi 

 and first tarsal with white spots, the seccnd tarsal with a small median white 

 spot, the apical tarsal faintly palé; hind legs with the femora, tibiae, and me- 

 tatarsi banded and speckled with white and the tar.si with prominent white apical 

 and basal bands. 



W i n gs with thick lauceolate and clávate scales, mostly blaek, yellow patehes 

 as follows: ten small ones on the costa, the two apical enes only spreading as two 

 small spots on to the first long vein ; traces of one on the iipper and two on the 

 lower branehes of the first fork-cell, one at the apex of the third and two on 

 each branch of the second fork-cell ; fringe brown, a palé spot where the lower 

 braneh of the fifth vein joins the border of the wing, another between the npper 

 branch of the fifth and the lower branch of the fourth and between its upper 

 branch and the third (remainder damaged) ; first sub-marginal eell longer and 

 narrower than the second posterior eell, its base considerably nearer the base of 

 the wing than that of latter; mid-cross vein about its own length nearer the 

 base of the wing than the snpernumerary, the posterior not qnite half its length 

 distant from the mid; the supernmnerary is jnst beneath the jnnction of the 

 sub-costal and costal ; the black wing seales form two prononneed blaek patehes 

 on the costa, and a third less prominent one may be noticed; halteres with bright 

 brow steam and jet black knobs vr\\h some grey scales." (Theobald). 



"Length. — 6.5 m|m. 



" Habitat.— Sao Paulo, Brazil (Lutz); Trinidad (Urich). 



La especie anteriormente descrita por Theobald. la ha encontrado, en Caya- 

 mas, Mr. E. A. Swarty, Entomologista del Departamento de- Agricnltura de 

 Washington. E. LT. A. Nosotros no la hemos encontrado y la razón de transcri- 

 bir aqní íntegro el texto inglés, es con el objeto de que la persona que algún día 

 capturara esta uno felina, tenga la descripción original sin modificaciones 

 de traducción. 



Número 3. — Anopheles grabhamii, Theobald. (1901). 



(Vide pág. 4.5). 

 Diagnosis 

 Color general: gris ceniciento. Long. contando la trompa: c5,m|m 

 6, .5; la 9 m!m 5,75. 



Cabeza: negra, globulosa, con escamas ahorquilladas negras, cuneiformes 

 distribuidas por detrás y á los lados del occiput, sobre la frente en mechón diri- 

 gidas en anteversión, rubias, al rededor de los ojos; las escamas no ofrecen in- 

 terés. Ojo, carmelita ó rojo muv quejnado. Antenas movena.s con pelos cortos 



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