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A NEW SPECIES OF PHLEBOTOMUS FROM SOUTH AMERICA. 



By Sophia L. M. Summers, M.A., B.Sc. 



London School of Tropical Medicine ; Carnegie Student of the University of 



Aberdeen. 



Phlebotomus rostrans, sp. nov. 



Four specimens — one male and three females — mounted in Canada Balsam 

 were sent from Rio Javarj, South America. In this condition nothing can be 

 said about their colour, and very little about the nature of their hairy covering, 

 except that all parts of the body are apparently hairy, as usual, and that the hairs 

 that are left on the abdomen are very long and almost recumbent. 



Fig. 1. — Phlebotomus rostrans, Summers ; a, wing ; b, male genitalia, lateral view ; 

 c, maxillary palp of female. 



Head of the female, measured from tip of proboscis, half the length of the rest 

 of the body ; clypeus more than ordinarily prominent, its length being about 

 equal to that of the rest of the head. Proboscis of the usual form, its free portion 

 in the female slightly longer, in the male slightly shorter, than the combined 

 head and clypeus. Maxillary palps in the female (in the single male they are 



Bull, Ent. Research, III, pt. 2 (1912). 



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