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Brues) ; Denison, Texas, June 22, 1904 (H. S. Barber) ; Nanaimo, British 

 Columbia, August 6, 1906 (Dyar and Caudell) ; Duncans, British Columbia, 

 August 9, 1906 (Dyar and Caudell) ; Wellington, British Columbia, August 7, 

 1906 (Dyar and Caudell) ; Portland, Oregon, July 30, 1906 (Dyar and Cau- 

 dell) ; Ashford, Washington, August 5, 1906 (Dyar and Caudell) ; Chico, Cali- 

 fornia, July 13, 1906 (Dyar & Caudell) ; Stanford University, California (I. 

 McCracken) ; Sweetwater Junction, California, June 2, 1906 (Dyar and Cau- 

 dell) ; Leon, State of Guanajuato, Mexico (A. Dug^s). Eeported also from 

 Chicago, Illinois, and Eastmanville, Michigan (Jordan & Hefferan) ; St. John, 

 New Brunswick (Coquillett MSS.). 



Anopheles punctipennis varies considerably in the extent and clearness of 

 the pale scaling on the wings. Dark specimens sometimes have the minor spots 

 much obscured and it was such a specimen that Ludlow described under the 

 name perplexens. One of us has examined the type and found that all the spots 

 exist ia their characteristic locations, although some of them are much obscured. 

 We have seen such specimens from widely separated localities, so that they do 

 not even represent a local race but are merely an extreme in the ordinary line 

 of variation. 



Theobald reports Anopheles punctipennis from Port Antonio, Jamaica, 

 where, he says, it is seemingly rare, and has probably been introduced, as it does 

 not appear to occur elsewhere in the island (Mosq. or Culic. of Jamaica, 12, 

 1905) . We have never received this species from the West Indies and do not 

 believe it occurs there. Dr. Grabham, in response to a query, writes us as 

 follows : 



" The specimen from Port Antonio taken by Dr. Mosely, which was said to be 

 A. punctipennis Say by Theobald, was sent through me. It was mounted in 

 balsam and very much rubbed and broken. It is quite likely that Theobald 

 has made an error." 



The species is listed by Prout as a Jamaican species (Ann. Trop. Med. & 

 Paras., iii, 487, 1909), but his information was furnished by Newstead, who 

 copied from the paper of Theobald. 



There is also an earlier Jamaican record by Howard (1900, p. 44), based 

 upon a specimen taken by C. W. Johnson. This specimen, unfortunately, ap- 

 pears to have been lost, but as the determination was made by Coquillett at a 

 time when he had no knowledge of the tropical species, no dependence can be 

 placed upon it. In conclusion it should be noted that the species has not been 

 recorded from Cuba, nor even Florida, territory in which it would be almost sure 

 to occur if present in Jamaica. 



ANOPHELES PSEUDOPUNCTIPENNIS Theobald. 



Anopheles punctipennis Howard (in part, not Say), U. S. Dept. Agr., Div. Ent., Bull. 



25, n. s., 44, 1900. 

 Anopheles pseudopunctipennis Theobald, Men. Culic, ii, 305, 1901. 

 Anopheles pseudopunctipennis Giles, Handb. Gnats or Mosq., 2 ed., 323, 1902. 

 Anopheles pseudopunctipennis Needham & Cockerell, Psyche, x, 135, 1903. 

 Anopheles pseudopunctipennis Parker, Beyer & Pothler, Bull. 13, Yell. Fever Inst.. 



U. S. Publ. Health & Mar.-Hosp. Serv., 38, 39, 1903. 

 Anopheles franciscanus McCracken, Ent. News, xv, 12, 1904. 

 Anopheles franciscanus Giles, Revis. Anophellnae, 20, 25, 1904. 

 Anopheles pseudopunctipennis Giles, Revis. Anophelinse, 20, 1904. 

 Anopheles pseudopunctipennis Adams, Kans. Univ. Sci. Bull., ii, 433, 1904. 

 Anopheles pseudopunctipennis Blanchard, Les Moustiques, 169, 1905. 

 Anopheles pseudopunctipennis and franciscanus Theobald, Gen. Ins., Dipt., 26 fasc, 



7, 1905. 

 Anopheles franciscanus Felt, Bull. 97, N. Y. State Mus., 449, 1905. 

 Anopheles franciscanus Dyar, Journ. N. Y. Ent. Soc, xiii, 23, 1905. 

 Anopheles pseudopunctipennis Dyar & Knab, Journ. N. Y. Ent. Soc, xlv, 177, 1906. 

 Anopheles franciscanus Dyar & Knab, Journ. N. Y. Ent. Soc, xiv, 176, 1906. 



