ANOPHELES ALBIMANTJS 981 



"Los palpos del macho son casi tan largos como la proljosis. El primero y 

 " segundo artlculo presenta una separacl6n Indistinta. El tercer artlculo se dilata 

 "en forma de cono con la base liS.cia la extremidad distal: El Apice del cono es 

 " Ugeramente blanqueclno; la base presenta un anillo bianco. El cuarto artlculo 

 " es mas corto y de forma cdnica tamblgn, su base tocando con la del anterior. De 

 " la base del cuarto artlculo sale un escobill6n de cerdas largas, muchas de las 

 " cuales son pardas hacia la punta. La extremidad distal de este artlculo es blanca. 

 " El quinto articulo, pequeno y c6nico tambiSn presenta la parte ancha, proximal, 

 " oscura y la extremidad apical clara. 



" La manera de distribuci6n de las manchas en el ala podra apreciarse en el 

 " adjunto diagrama." 



EI insecto que nos ocupa estS. al parecer bien diseminada por toda la Isla. El 

 primer ejemplar que vimos lo recogi6 el Dr. Lazear en los Quemados, (Campamento 

 de Columbia) en Junio del presento ano; mSs tarde, (Julio 6) capturamos nuestra 

 primera muestra en las faldas del Castillo del Principe, alrededores de la Habana; 

 de entonces aca el Dr. Guiteras lo obtuvo de Matanzas, el Dr. DAvalos del Cerro y 

 nosotros en Pinar del Rio, habiendo recibido varies ejemplares de Bayamo, Cienfugos 

 y Santa Clara. Abunda este anopheles en las charcas que so forman en las canteraa 

 abandonadas del Vedado y de Jestis del Monte, (Habana). 



Desceiption of Female, Mai-e, and Laeva op Anopheles albimanus : 



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

 labellse long, lanceolate, luteoiis, with a few outstanding setse. Palpi as long as 

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

 and articulation of preceding one white, long joint black with a narrow white 

 ring at middle. Antennae filiform, the joints rather short, subequal, densely 

 pilose, blackish; hairs of whorls short, sparse, black; tori small, subspherical, 

 with an apical cup-shaped excavation, black with gray pruinosity. Clypeus 

 prominent, subtriangular, blackish, pruinose, nude. Eyes well separated at 

 vertex, black. Occiput dark, clothed with erect and semi-erect elliptical and 

 truncate white scales medianly, black ones on the sides, a group of long white 

 hair-like scales projecting forward on the vertex ; a row of hairs along margins 

 of eyes. 



Prothoracic lobes small, lateral. Mesonotum elongate, narrow, grayish- 

 brown, pruinose, a pair of velvet-black spots centrally at anterior ends of a pair 

 of broad sublateral bare stripes, and another large spot before scutellum ; 

 vestiture of rather sparse, small, broadly lanceolate, curved ocherous scales and 

 with rows of short blackish bristles. Scutellum collar-like, uniform, gray- 

 pruinose, with a marginal row of black bristles and clothed with small white 

 scales like those of mesonotum. Postnotum elliptical, prominent, dark brown, 

 nude. Pleurae and coxae blackish-brown, with rows of black bristles and small 

 patches of white scales, mostly on the coxae. 



Abdomen subcylindrical, flattened, subtruncate at tip, blackish ; dorsal vesti- 

 ture of rather broad, flat, pale yellow scales, numerous black bristles, a lateral 

 patch of black scales on posterior angles of segments, forming outstanding 

 lateral tufts ; venter clothed with broad yellowish scales, with segmental apical 

 patches of black ones forming incomplete apical bands; hairs coarse and 

 abundant, particularly along lateral margins. 



Wings (plate 41, fig. 14) moderate, hyaline; petiole of second marginal cell 

 about half as long as its cell, that of second posterior cell longer than its cell ; 

 basal cross-vein distant more than its own length from anterior cross-vein ; scales 

 of veins black and yellowish-white, the outstanding ones lanceolate, the black in 

 patches as follows : six spots on the eosta, first and second small, on basal fifth, 

 third, fourth, and fifth large, sixth subapical and small; first vein with five 

 black spots, the first and second small and opposite the third costal spot, the 

 third, fourth and fifth opposite the fourth, fifth and sixth costal spots and 

 nearly as large; second vein with the stem spotted black and yellow, fork-cell 

 with a black patch at base, a spot near base and tip of each fork ; third vein with 

 a small black spot at base and near apex ; fourth vein with a long black patch 

 before fork, two black spots on upper branch and one subapically on lower; 

 fifth vein with a black patch before the fork, upper branch with three black 

 patches, lower one with a small terminal one ; sixth vein with a black patch near 



