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our region by the fact that the terminal rings of the hind tarsal joints are apical 

 only and the last joint wholly black. The wing ornamentation is also character- 

 istic, the third vein being almost wholly black-scaled and the black scales more 

 extensive throughout. There appear to be no pigment spots underneath the 

 three large costal patches of black scales and the light colored scales are white 

 throughout, while in some of the related species they are predominatingly 

 yellow except in the costal region. It should be kept in mind, however, that the 

 extent of the black in the wing-pattern is subject to considerable variation in all 

 the species of this group. 



We are particularly sceptical of the record by Theobald (and quoted by 

 Prout) for Jamaica and convinced that some error has been made. We are not 

 sure that the description and figure of the wing given in that connection (Mosq. 

 or Culic. of Jamaica, p. 13, pi. 1, fig. 1, 1905) were made from a Jamaican 

 specimen. The distribution of the black scales as shown in that figure does not 

 agree with the figure previously published by Theobald (Mon. Culic, iii, p. 83, 

 fig. 51a) nor with the specimens before us. 



ANOPHELES MEDIOPUNCTATUS (Theobald) Dyar & Knab. 



Oycloleppteron mediopunctatus Theobald, Journ. Trop. Med., v, 182, 1902 (nomen 



nudum). 

 Oycloleppteron mediopunctatus Theobald, Mon. Culic, ill, 60, 83, 1903. 

 Cycloleppteron mediopunctatum Giles, Revls. Anophelinse, 14, 26, 1904. 

 Oyclolepidopteron mediopunctatum Lutz In Bourroul, Mosq. do Brasil, 36, 75, 78, 



1904. 

 Oyclolepidopteron mediopunctatum Blanchard, Les Moustiques, 623, 1905. 

 Oycloleppteron mediopunctatus Theobald, Gen. Ins., Dipt., 26 fasc, 8, 1905. 

 Oycloleppteron mediopunctata Theobald, Mon. Culic, iv, 54, 1907. 

 Oycloleppteron medio-puntatum Peryassti, Os Cullcid. do Brazil, 39, 80, 1908. 

 Cycloleppteron mediopunctatum Neiva, Mem. Inst. O. Cruz, i, 69, 1909. 

 Cycloleppteron mediopunctatus Theobald, Mon. Culic, v, 34, 1910. 

 Anopheles mediopunctata Howard, Dyar & Knab, Mosq. No. & Centr. Amer. & W. 



Ind., ii, pi. 41, fig. 17, 1913. 

 Anopheles mediopunctatum Knab, Amer. Journ. Trop. Dis. & Prev. Med., i, 35, 1913. 



Obioinal Description of Ctclolepptbbon MBDiopUNCTATtrs: 



Thorax reddish-brown, with a grey sheen, with two black eye-like spots and a 

 large dark spot in front of and extending on to the scutellum, the mesothorax 

 spotted with deep reddish-brown and with pale scales. Abdomen deep brown, with 

 golden hairs and lateral scale tufts. Palpi banded with black and gold. Legs deep 

 brown, spotted and banded with golden yellow, the last tarsal segment of all the 

 legs yellow. Wings with black and white scales, the black forming three prominent 

 costal spots on tinged ground, several small white costal spots. 



tJ. Head deep brown, with very short creamy upright forked scales in the middle, 

 the edge of the eyes grey towards the middle of the head, brown laterally, two large 

 tufts of long golden hairs projecting forwards. Antennae banded with pale brown 

 and grey, with flaxen brown plumes; palpi with the two apical joints swollen, golden 

 yellow with narrow basal black bands, the rest of the palpi black, with patches of 

 golden scales, especially towards the base, where the scales become dense, hair tufts 

 golden and flaxen, with shades of brown; proboscis brown, thin curved downwards. 



Thorax pale reddish-brown, with a greyish sheen, rather large deep reddish-brown 

 spots in the middle and broad line of smaller ones on each side, about the middle of 

 the mesonotum on each side a prominent black eye-like spot and another larger 

 one at the back of the mesonotum extending over the middle of the scutellum, 

 thorax clothed with scattered golden hair-like curved scales and a few rather flat 

 white ones over the roots of the wings; metanotum pale brown; pleurae brown, with 

 two grey curious twisted marks. 



Abdomen deep blackish-brown, with golden hairs, each segment with apical 

 lateral tufts of black and golden scales and ventral scales, especially on the apical 

 segments. 



Legs deep brown, spotted and banded with rich golden yellow, the spotting most 

 pronounced on the femora and tibiae, the banding on the metatarsi and tarsi, on the 

 former irregular, on the latter broad and more pronounced, but also showing 

 spotting on the dark areas; last segment of all the legs yellow. 



Wings with black and white scales and with the membrane with three brown 

 patches on the costal border. The black scales form three prominent large costal 

 spots over the tinged areas; the remaining dark costal border is broken by about ten 

 small white spots, of which there are several also on the first long vein. The first 



