ANOPHELES TAKSIMACULATA 975 



given the same specific name, to add to the confusion. Knab referred the species 

 here considered to the synonymy of Anopheles alMtarsis Lynch Arribalzaga, but 

 that species is distinct, having the abdomen dorsally covered with scales, while 

 A. lutzii Cruz has the dorsum of the abdomen devoid of scales. 



ANOPHELES TAESIMACTTLATA Goeldi. 



Anopheles argyrotarsis albipes Theobald (in part), Men. Culic, 1, 125, 1901. 

 Anopheles argyritarsis Durham (not Robineau-Desvoidy), Thompson Yates Lab. 



Kept, iv, 534, 1902. 

 Anopheles alUpes Gray & Low (not Theobald), Brit. Med. Journ., No. 2143, 194, 1902. 

 Anopheles argyritarsis Durham (not Robineau-Desvoidy), Liverpool School Trop. 



Med., Mem. vil, 50, 1902. 

 Cellia albipes Theobald (in part), Mon. Culic, iii, 110, 1903. 

 Gellia albipes Bourroul (not Theobald), Mosq. do Brasil, 63, 1904. 

 Cellia albipes Theobald (in part). Gen. Ins., Dipt., 26 fasc, 11, 1905. 

 Anopheles tarsimaculata Goeldi, Os Mosq. no ParS, 133, 1905. 

 Anopheles tarsimaculata Dyar & Knab, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., xix, 160, 1906. 

 Nyssorhynchus cubensis Blanchard (in part, not Agramonte), Lies Moustiques, 204, 



1905. 

 Cellia albimanus Coquillett (in part, not Wiedemann), U. S. Dept. Agr., Bur. Bnt, 



Tech. Ser. 11, 13, 1906. 

 Cellia albimana Theobald (in part, not Wiedemann), Mon. Culic, iv, 106, 1907. 

 Nyssorhynchus albimanus Autran (not Wiedemann), Anal. Dep. Nac Hig., xiv, 8, 



1907. 

 Anopheles gorgasi Dyar & Knab, Journ. N. Y. Ent. Soc, xv, 198, 1907. 

 Anopheles tarsimaculata Busck, Smiths. Misc. Colls., quart, iss., Iii, 58, 1908. 

 Anopheles gorgasi Busck, Smiths. Misc. Colls., quart, iss., Iii, 59, 1908. 

 Cellia albipes Peryassfl (not Theobald), Os Culic. do Brazil, 61, 1908. 

 Cellia albimana Peryassli (not Wiedemann), Os Culicid. do Brazil, 41, 120, 1908. 

 Gellia albimana Neiva (not Wiedemann), Mem. Inst. O. Cruz, i, 69, 1909. 

 Cellia albimana Theobald (in part, not Wiedemann), Mon. Culic, v, 69, 1910. 

 Anopheles gorgasi Theobald, Mon. Culic, v, 86, 1910. 



Anopheles tarsimaculata Darling, Stud. Relat. Malaria, Isthm. Canal Comm., 6, 1910. 

 Anopheles gorgasi Darling, Stud. Rel. Mai., 6, 1910. 

 Cellia albimana Newstead & Thomas (not Wiedemann), Ann. Trop. Med. & Par., iv, 



142, 1910. 

 Anopheles albimanus Nicholls (not Wiedemann), Bull. Ent. Res., iii, 252, 256, 1912. 

 Anopheles tarsimaculata Jennings, Journ. Econ. Ent., v, 133, 1912. 

 Nyssorhynchus cubensis Surcouf & Gonzalez-Rincones (not Agramonte), Arch. 



ParasitoL, xv, 272, 1912. 

 Cellia albimana Surcouf & Gonzalez-Rincones (not Wiedemann), Arch. ParasitoL, 



XV, 274, 1912. 

 Anopheles tarsimaculata Knab, Amer. Journ. Trop. Dis. & Prev. Med., i, 36, 1913. 

 Anopheles tarsimaculata Zetek, Ann. Ent. Soc. Amer., viii, 221, 1915. 



Oeiginai. Desceiption of Anopheles goeqasi: 



Palpi as long as the proboscis, mostly black scaled, the terminal and penultimate 

 joints light scaled except at the bases and apices; mesothorax gray, with fine brown 

 scales, a black spot in front of the scutellum, a pair of sublateral black spots 

 medially; wings with the veins scaled in black and white, two very large black 

 patches on the costa and a smaller one towards the base and a smaller one at the apex 

 as in A. albimanus Wied. The rest of the wing is too much denuded to describe. 

 Abdomen with groups of outstanding scales laterally at the apices of the segments, 

 the dorsum clothed with yellow scales on a dark ground, the lateral tufts black. 

 Legs mostly black-scaled, hind legs with the apical half of the second, the third, 

 and the base of the fourth joints white scaled, the remainder of the fourth and basal 

 half of the fifth segments black, the third joint with a large black patch on the under 

 side which reaches from near the base to beyond the middle. Length, 3.5 mm. 



One female, in poor condition. La Boca, Canal Zone, Panama (A. H. Jennings, 

 collector). 



Type. — No. 10863, U. S. National Museum. 



Named, at the suggestion of Mr. August Busck, in honor of Dr. W. C. Gorgas, 

 Assistant Surgeon-General, U. S. Army, Chief Sanitary Officer of the Isthmian Canal 

 Commission. 



Desceiption op Female, Mau;, and Labva or Anopheles tabsimaculata: 



Female. — Proboscis moderate, thicker towards base, straight; vestiture 

 black ; labellae long, lanceolate, luteous, with a few outstanding setae. Palpi as 

 long as the proboscis, uniform, roughly clothed with long spatulate scales ; last 

 two joints white except at their bases; long joint black and white scaled, the 



