Insecutor Inscitiae Menstruus 



Vol. IX JANQARY-MARCH, 1921 Nos. 1-3 



NOTES ON SOUTH AMERICAN MOSQUITOES IN 

 THE BRITISH MUSEUM 



(Diptera, CuKcidce) 



By J. BONNE-WEPSTER and C. BONNE 



During the years 1916-1919 we collected and studied mos- 

 quitoes in Surinam. We compared our material, 110 species, 

 of which some 30 were new, with the collections in the 

 U. S. National Museum in Washington and afterwards went 

 to England to study Theobald's South American types. Mr. 

 F. W. Edwards, of the British Museum, gave us every assist- 

 ance and allowed us to mount the hypopygium of male types, 

 which makes the identifications more accurate. 



Genus SABETHES Robineau-Desvoidy 



Sabethes bipartipes Dyar and Knab. 



This species is identical with the mosquito Theobald de- 

 scribed as the supposed male of his Sabethes nitidus, but which 

 really is a female. The name tiitidits cannot stand for this 

 species as already shown by Howard, Dyar and Knab (Mosq. 

 N. & Cent. Amer. & W. Ind., iii, 31, 1915). This species is 

 recorded from Santo Domingo only. Theobald's specimen 

 came from South America and we also found the species in 

 Surinam. Sabethes chroiopus Dyar and Knab, a single male 

 from British Guiana, is probably the male of this species as 

 pointed out by us (Ins. Ins. Mens., vii, 165, 1920). The 

 synonymy becomes now as follows : 



Sabethes nitidus Theobald (in part), Mon. Culic, ii, .347. 1901. 

 Sabethes nitidus Theobald (in part), Mon. CuHc, iii, 326, 1903. 

 Sabethes nitidus Blanchard (in part), Les Moustiques, 422, 1905. 



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