﻿A NEW PHILIPPINE MALARIA MOSQUITO 



By Charles S. Banks 

 (From the Entomological Section, Biological Laboratory, Bureau of Science, 



Manila, P. I.) 



In the course of investigations at Calamba, Laguna Province, 

 Luzon, carried on by Drs. E. L. Walker and M. A. Barber to 

 ascertain the species of mosquitoes capable of transmitting ma- 

 laria, many specimens of a very interesting Myzomyia were 

 bred between December 27, 1913, and April 12, 1914. 



This mosquito, in many respects, is very much like Myzomyia 

 funesta Giles and M. rossii Giles, but differs in the wing spots 

 and female palpal markings. 



A brief description of this mosquito is given by Doctors Walker 

 and Barber x and this more detailed description is given fully 

 to identify the species. 



Myzomyia febrifera sp. nov. $ and $ . 



General color pale gray, thorax darker laterally, abdomen 

 dark, proboscis dark brown, labellae golden brown, apical third 

 of palpi of female white with dark brown markings, as de- 

 scribed below. Wings with 4 broad black costal spots alternating 

 with cream spots, other veins with alternately black and cream 

 scales. Legs wholly brown or bluish brown, with exceedingly 

 minute golden brown spots or rings at articulations. 



Male. — Pale gray, head with erect black scales on occiput, 

 white ones on frons, and a bifurcated tuft of white hairs be- 

 tween eyes ; antennae golden brown-gray, apical segment inflated ; 

 palpi porrect, basal segments thin, dark brown, apical one white 

 with brown transverse and semilongitudinal bands which are 

 preapical and basal ; apical segment with pale bristles on interior 

 surface; proboscis dark brown; labellae pale. 



Mesonotum pale gray with a dark brown median hair-line 

 expanding caudad before scutellum, also faint submedian and 

 dorsolateral lines caudad. Pleurae pale with indistinct, longitu- 

 dinal brown fasciae, golden hairs abundant on dorsum and 

 sides. Scutellum dark mediad ; metanotum dark, narrow median 

 fascia. 



^This Journal, Sec. B (1914), 9, 384. 



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