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front tarsi with the first joint with three little spots and base and tip yellowish, 

 second and third joints yellowish at base and apex, fourth at base only; mid 

 tarsi without rings, some minute white specks on the first joint ; hind tarsi with 

 the first, second, third, and fourth joints white-ringed at tips, first joint with 

 four or five yellowish spots on basal third, one or two white rings beyond, 

 second joint with a white ring above middle. Claw formula, 0.0-0.0-0.0. 



Length : Body about 5 mm. ; wing 4.5 mm. 



Mr. McLachlan remarks : " These mosquitoes alight and rest on a surface 

 with head down and body almost or quite at right angles with that surface. 

 Legs bunched and extending straight up on line with the body." The larval 

 habits and habitat are unknown. 



Mexico and Central America ; Greater Antilles. 



Nautla, Mexico (A. Duges) ; Palizada, Mexico (A. Dug^s) ; Polochic Eiver, 

 Guatemala, June 2, 1907 (A. McLachlan) ; Panzos, Guatemala, June, 1904 

 (0. F. Cook) ; Cacao, Trece Aguas, Alta Vera Paz, Guatemala, April, 1906 

 (Schwarz & Barber) ; Cayamas, Cuba, May 23 (E. A. Schwarz) ; Spanish 

 Town, Jamaica, January, 1910 (Dr. Neish, through M. Grabham). 



Anopheles vestitipennis is very characteristic on account of its general dark 

 appearance, enhanced by the heavy scaling of its wings, and the smaU size of 

 the yellow spots on both wings and legs. It appears to be the conomonest 

 Anopheles in the forests of eastern Guatemala, but rare elsewhere. 



ANOPHELES MACULIPES (Theobald) Knab. 



Arrihaleagia maeuUpes Theobald, Men. CuUc, ill, 81, 1903. 

 Arriialzagia maculipes Giles, Rev. Anophelinse, 40, 1904. 

 Arribalzagia maculipes Lutz in Bourroul, Mosq. do Brasil, 36, 1904. 

 Arribalzagaia maculipes Blanchard, Les Moustlques, 624, 1905. 

 Arrihalzagia maculipes Theobald, Mosq. or Culic. Jamaica, 13, 1905. 

 Arrihalzagaia maculipes Peryassfi, Os Culicid. do Brazil, 40, 106, 1908. 

 Arrizalzagia maculipes Prout, Ann. Trop. Med. & Paras., ill, 487, 1909. 

 Arribalzagia maculipes Theobald, Men. Culic, v, 49, 1910. 

 Anopheles maculipes Knab, Amer. Journ. Trop. Dls. & Prev. Med., I, 36, 1913. 



Oeioinal Desckiption of Abeibalzagia mactji-ipes: 



Thorax brown, with pale scales; palpi densely black scaled, with three narrow 

 white bands and a minute white apex. Abdomen dark brown, the segments with 

 lateral tufts of black scales. Legs dark brown, spotted with white, the hind tarsi 

 with apical and basal white banding as well. Wings mostly dark scaled, with a few 

 small yellow patches, costal border dark, with several small pale spots; three more 

 or less pronounced dark patches on the costal border. 



$. Head dark brown, with deep brown and grey upright forked scales, the dark 

 ones grey at the tips, a faint pale border round the eyes and a tuft of hair-like pale 

 scales in front; antennae deep brown, basal joint black, with narrow curved white 

 scales; clypeus brown, of peculiar form; palpi densely scaled with black scales, 

 with three narrow white scaled bands, a white apex and a few scattered white 

 scales; proboscis deep brown. 



Thorax brown, with a slaty-grey sheen showing brown longitudinal lines and 

 with small brown specks and narrow hair-like golden curved scales ; there is a dark 

 patch joining the scutellum which is carried on to its mid lobe, the rest of the 

 scutellum being slaty-grey, with a few narrow hair-like golden scales; metanotum 

 deep brown, with a median dark line; pleurae brown, with a grey sheen in places. 



Abdomen black, with deep brown and golden-brown hairs, the dorsum nude, but 

 each segment with an apical lateral tuft of black scales and a few white ones on the 

 last few tufts; venter with many white and black flat scales, and also to some extent 

 the apical segment. Legs deep brown, banded and spotted with white; fore legs 

 missing; mid legs with the femora, tibiae, metatarsi and first tarsal with white 

 spots, the second tarsal with a small median white spot, the apical tarsal faintly 

 pale; hind legs with the femora, tibiae, and metatarsi banded and speckled with 

 white and the tarsi with prominent white apical and basal bands. 



Wings with thick lanceolate and clavate scales, mostly black, yellow patches 

 as follows: ten small ones on the costa, the two apical ones only spreading 

 as two small spots on to the first long vein; traces of one on the upper and two on 

 the lower branches of the first fork-cell, one at the apex of the third and two on each 

 branch of the second fork-cell; fringe brown, a pale spot where the lower branch 

 of the fifth vein joins the border of the wing, another between the upper branch of 



