THE 



MOSQUITOES OR CULICIDAE OF JAMAICA. 



As something like finality has been reached in regard to the 

 mosquitoes of this island through the energy and ability of Dr. 

 Grabham, I propose to issue a complete account of them for the 

 reference of those working on such diseases as they are connected 

 with in this and neighbouring islands. The fact that we have 

 all three of the worst mosquito-borne diseases here and in the 

 neighbouring islands, namely malaria, filariasis, and now and 

 then yellow fever (the latter luckily almost stamped out through 

 the energetic work of Americans), makes this subject of vital 

 importance to those connected with the West Indies, otherwise 

 than Jamaica. Previous to 1899 little or nothing was known of 

 the Jamaican Culicidae. In my Monograph * issued in 1901 

 nine species were recorded and one variety, four of which were 

 new to science. The four previously known species were 

 Anopheles argyrotarsis, R.-Desvoidy, Stegomyia fasciata, Fabricius, 

 Culex fatigans, Wiedemann, and Culex confirmatus, Arribalzaga, 

 but none of these had been recorded from the island. The new 

 species added were Anopheles Grabhamii, Culex jamaicensis, Culex 

 atratus, Culex (Stegomyia ?) Walkeri, and Deinocerites cancer. 



In Vol. II. of the Monograph f Anopheles Grabhamii was 

 taken as the type of a new genus for which I proposed the name 

 Cycloleppteron, owing to the curious rounded black scales on the 

 wings. 



Another new Culex, Culex secutor, was also described in the 

 Appendix (p. 321), and also a new Uranotaenia, Uranotaenia 

 socialis (p. 340). 



* A Monograph of the Culicidae of the World, 2 vols., and 1 Atlas of 

 Plates, 1901 ; vol. iii., 1903. 

 t App., p. 312. 



