﻿MOSQUITO 
  NOTES 
  — 
  III. 
  79 
  

  

  Mesonotum 
  with 
  light 
  brown 
  bristles 
  and 
  rather 
  scanty 
  golden-yellow 
  scales. 
  Pleurae 
  

   without 
  scales 
  ; 
  four 
  pro-epimeral 
  bristles 
  ; 
  about 
  six 
  post-spiraculars 
  ; 
  no 
  lower 
  

   mesepimeral. 
  Abdomen 
  yellowish, 
  much 
  denuded, 
  the 
  remaining 
  scales 
  golden- 
  

   yellow. 
  Seventh 
  segment 
  slender 
  ; 
  eighth 
  retracted 
  ; 
  cerci 
  apparently 
  rather 
  short. 
  

   Legs 
  with 
  yellow 
  integument 
  ; 
  femora 
  with 
  golden-yellow 
  scales, 
  except 
  at 
  the 
  tips, 
  

   which 
  are 
  black 
  ; 
  tibiae 
  darker 
  ; 
  tarsi 
  blackish, 
  without 
  definite 
  rings 
  (but 
  much 
  

   rubbed). 
  Wings 
  with 
  the 
  scales 
  mostly 
  dark 
  brown 
  ; 
  costa 
  and 
  first 
  vein 
  yellow- 
  

   scaled 
  on 
  the 
  basal 
  third 
  only, 
  the 
  colour 
  gradually 
  shading 
  to 
  brown 
  ; 
  scales 
  narrow. 
  

   Fork-cells 
  about 
  as 
  long 
  as 
  their 
  stems, 
  base 
  of 
  upper 
  slightly 
  nearer 
  the 
  apex 
  of 
  the 
  

   wing 
  than 
  that 
  of 
  lower. 
  Wing-length, 
  5 
  mm. 
  

  

  Cotypes, 
  2 
  $ 
  ; 
  one 
  from 
  Asuncion, 
  1904 
  ( 
  Vezenyi), 
  the 
  other 
  without 
  data 
  (Fiebrig). 
  

  

  The 
  species 
  is 
  nearly 
  allied 
  to 
  A. 
  fiilvus 
  (Wied.), 
  and 
  A. 
  bimaculatus 
  (Coq.), 
  

   differing 
  from 
  both 
  in 
  the 
  shorter 
  palpi 
  and 
  mainly 
  dark-scaled 
  wings, 
  and 
  from 
  the 
  

   former 
  in 
  the 
  absence 
  of 
  a 
  black 
  band 
  across 
  the 
  pleurae. 
  

  

  B. 
  — 
  New 
  and 
  little-known 
  Sabethixes 
  collected 
  by 
  Mr. 
  G. 
  E. 
  Bodkin 
  in 
  

  

  British 
  Guiana. 
  

  

  Included 
  in 
  collections 
  which 
  have 
  been 
  received 
  from 
  Mr. 
  G. 
  E. 
  Bodkin 
  during 
  

   the 
  past 
  year 
  are 
  a 
  number 
  of 
  interesting 
  species 
  of 
  mosquitos, 
  notes 
  on 
  which 
  are 
  

   appended. 
  Many 
  species 
  of 
  Wyeomyia 
  were 
  sent, 
  and 
  in 
  the 
  course 
  of 
  determining 
  

   these 
  I 
  noticed 
  some 
  interesting 
  peculiarities 
  in 
  the 
  middle 
  tarsi 
  of 
  the 
  males, 
  which 
  

   seem 
  to 
  give 
  much 
  needed 
  assistance 
  in 
  the 
  discrimination 
  of 
  nearly 
  allied 
  species. 
  

   These 
  characters 
  have 
  not 
  heretofore 
  been 
  described 
  accurately, 
  and 
  I 
  have 
  therefore 
  

   figured 
  some 
  of 
  them. 
  The 
  types 
  of 
  the 
  two 
  new 
  species, 
  and 
  most 
  of 
  the 
  other 
  

   specimens 
  referred 
  to, 
  have 
  been 
  presented 
  to 
  the 
  British 
  Museum 
  through 
  the 
  

   Imperial 
  Bureau 
  of 
  Entomology. 
  

  

  Goeldia 
  longipes, 
  Fab. 
  

  

  2$, 
  Issororo, 
  ix.1921 
  ; 
  attacking 
  man 
  ; 
  diurnal. 
  

  

  These 
  are 
  the 
  first 
  specimens 
  of 
  this 
  rare 
  and 
  beautiful 
  species 
  which 
  have 
  been 
  

   received 
  at 
  the 
  British 
  Museum. 
  

  

  Sabethoides 
  imperfectus, 
  B.-W. 
  & 
  B. 
  

  

  1 
  $, 
  Ulauna, 
  Kariabo, 
  Aruka 
  River, 
  ix.1921 
  ; 
  attacking 
  man 
  ; 
  diurnal. 
  

  

  A 
  ready 
  means 
  of 
  distinction 
  from 
  S. 
  Jiitidns 
  is 
  found 
  in 
  the 
  upper 
  mesepimeral 
  

   bristles. 
  In 
  S. 
  nitidus 
  these 
  are 
  of 
  the 
  ordinary 
  length, 
  but 
  in 
  the 
  specimen 
  of 
  

   S. 
  imperfectus 
  before 
  me 
  they 
  are 
  extremely 
  long, 
  curving 
  over 
  the 
  base 
  of 
  the 
  

   postnotum 
  and 
  almost 
  meeting 
  in 
  the 
  middle 
  line. 
  

  

  Wyeomyia 
  splendida, 
  B.-W. 
  & 
  B. 
  

  

  1 
  (J, 
  1$, 
  Rockstone, 
  29.vii.1921, 
  bred 
  from 
  larvae 
  inhabiting 
  Bromelias 
  ; 
  1 
  (J, 
  

   Aruka 
  River, 
  16.ix.21, 
  bred 
  from 
  larva 
  in 
  Bromelia 
  ; 
  1 
  $, 
  Issororo, 
  ix.21, 
  bred 
  from 
  

   larva 
  in 
  Heliconia. 
  

  

  The 
  fourth 
  mid-tarsal 
  segment 
  of 
  the 
  q 
  (fig. 
  1, 
  s) 
  has 
  a 
  single 
  long, 
  slender 
  spine 
  

   at 
  its 
  tip 
  ; 
  the 
  fifth 
  segment 
  is 
  about 
  two 
  and 
  a 
  half 
  times 
  as 
  long 
  as 
  its 
  average 
  

   breadth, 
  with 
  a 
  large 
  rounded 
  prominence 
  in 
  the 
  middle 
  beneath, 
  the 
  prominence 
  

  

  