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Anopheles (sensu restricto) antennattis, Becker. A species difficult to 

 locate and placed as uncertain by Theobald. 



SOUTH AMERICAN AND WEST INDIAN SPECIES OF ANOPHELES. 



Anopheles (sensu restricto) vestipennis, Dyar and Knab. Tarsi banded 

 with white, hind tarsi black and white. Costa with small yellow spots. 

 An imperfectly described species, from Guatemala, Mexico. 



Anopheles (sensu restricto) strigumacula, Dyar and Knab. Another 

 doubtful species from Cordoba, Mexico. 



Anopheles (sensu restricto) apicimacula, Dyar and Knab. Said to be 

 like the former species, but with a distinct black costo-apical spot on 

 wing. It is found in Guatemala, Panama and Trinidad. 



Anopheles (sensu restricto) piinctiinacitla, Dyar and Knab, from Colon, 

 and Anopheles eiseni (?) Coquillett, from Guatemala are doubtful species. 



Anopheles (sensu restricto) psendopunctipennis, Theobald. Palpi with 

 three white bands, the last one including the apex. Legs brown, coxae, 

 trochanters and base of femora pale. Costa with two yellowish white 

 spots. From Grenada. 



Anopheles (Stethomyia) nimbus, Theobald. Palpi long and thin without 

 any bands. Thorax black with a silvery median line. Legs long, thin, 

 and unbanded. Wings densely scaled but unspotted. From British 

 Guiana, also from Brazil. It simulates a Cnlex when at rest. 



Anopheles (Chagasia) fajardi, Lutz. Palpi with dense dark scales 

 and pale rings at the joints. Thorax yellowish white with golden 

 sheen. Legs spotted and banded, the bands on the tarsi broad. 

 Wings without any spots. When at rest assumes the attitude of 

 Cnlex. Egg without floats, ribbed and striated. Larva with simple 

 median frontal hairs, external pair branched ; palmate hairs from 

 first to seventh segments ; leaflet broad, fan-like ; filament with a 

 simple hair projecting from centre. From Brazil. 



Anopheles (Myzorhynchella ; Chagasia) niger, Theobald. Palpi dark 

 with four narrow white bands, the two apical ones close together. 

 Thorax black with creamy- white scales. Legs banded, apex of hind 

 metatarsus, half the second and the last three tarsi pure white. 

 Costa with three small yellow spots and two smaller ones at base. 

 From Mexico and Brazil. 



Anopheles (Myzorhynchella ; Chagasia) nigritarsiis, Chagas. Palpi dark, 

 without any distinct bands. Thorax and abdomen dark brown. Legs 

 dark, with spots and bands, the last tarsus of hind leg pure white, 



