ANOPHELES PSEUDOPUNCTIPENNIS 1015 



Anopheles pseudopunetipennis and franciscanus Coquillett, V. S. Dept. Agr., Bur. 



Ent, Tech. Ser. 11, 12, 1906. 

 Anopheles franciscanus Dyar, U. S. Dept. Agr., Bur. Ent., Circ. 72, 1, 1906. 

 Anopheles franciscanus Quayle, Bull. 178, Agr. Exp. Sta., Berkeley, Cal., 52, 1906. 

 Anopheles pseudopunctipennis Theobald, Mon. Culic, iv, 25, 1907. 

 Anopheles franciscanus Theobald, Mon. Culic, Iv, 31, 1907. 

 Anopheles franciscanus Howard, Osier's Modern Medicine, 1, 383, 386, 1907. 

 Anopheles franciscanus Dyar, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xxxil, 122, 1907. 

 Anopheles peruvianus Tamayo & Garcia, Los Aguas de Huacachlna, Mem. Muncipal. 



Lima, App-, 35, 1907. 

 Anopheles pseudopunctipennis Busck, Smiths. Misc. Colls., quart, iss., Hi, 57, 1908. 

 Anopheles pseudopunctipennis Theobald, Mon. Culic, v, 7, 1910. 

 Anopheles franciscanus Theobald, Mon. Culic, v, 8, 1910. 

 Anopheles pseudopunctipennis Darling, Stud. Rel. Malaria, Isthm. Canal Comm., 7, 



1910. 

 Anopheles franciscanus Darling, Stud. Rel. Malaria, Isthm. Canal Comm., 8, 1910. 

 Proterorhynchus argentinus BrSthes, Bol. Inst. Ent. y Patol. Veget, i, 15, 1912. 

 Anopheles tucumanus Lahille, Anal. Mus. Nac. Buen. Aires, xxiii, 253, 1912. 

 Anopheles pseudopunctipennis Jennings, Journ. Econ. Ent., v, 134, 1912. 

 Anopheles pseudopunctipennis Knab, Amer. Journ. Trop. Dis. & Prev. Med., i, 36, 40, 



41, 1913. 

 Anopheles pseudopunctipennis Knab, Kept. First Exp. So. Amer., Harvard Sch. Trop. 



Med., 212, 216, 1915. 



Original Dkscbiption of Anopheles pseudopunctipennis: 



Wings much as in A. punctipennis. Say, but the fringe with yellow spots. Legs 

 long, unhanded, brown, pale at the base. Pore ungues of ^ unequal, mid and hind 

 equal and simple. 



5. Antennae brown, basal joint testaceous, base of the second joint pale, and also 

 a small pale band at the base of all the following joints; proboscis dark brown, 

 labella yellowish; palpi dark brown, densely scaled at the base, apex yellow, and also 

 two narrow yellow bands below, slightly hairy, hairs black, except at the apex, where 

 they are yellow; clypeus dark brown. 



Thorax yellowish-brown (denuded), with a dark patch on each side of the meso- 

 notum behind; metanotum deep brown; pleurae yellowish-brown, with darker brown 

 patches. 



Abdomen brown, the segments paler at the base; hairy. 



Legs deep brown; coxae, trochanters and base of femora pallid; knee spot pale; 

 ungues equal and simple. 



Halteres with pale stem and fuscous knob. 



Wings with two yellowish-white spots on the upper costal border, rest of the edge 

 black, rather densely scaled; first sub-marginal cell longer and narrower than the 

 second posterior cell, its stem nearly as long as the cell; mid cross-vein a little 

 nearer the base of the wing than the supernumerary cross- vein; posterior cross- 

 vein still nearer the base of the wing; scales of the wings disposed as follows: — 

 First long vein with three distinct large white spots, one at the base, one underneath 

 the large costal spot, and one between; second long vein with a dark patch near 

 its base, all the lower branch of the fork-cell dark, and most of the upper; third 

 long vein mostly yellowish-white, with two black patches, one towards the base, the 

 other towards the tip; fourth long vein mostly pale, with two small black patches, 

 branches of the fork-cell all dark scaled; fifth long vein with a black spot near the 

 base, rest mostly yellow, upper branch of the fork mostly dark, a small yellow spot at 

 the apex and another towards its base, lower branch mostly yellowish, with a black 

 apical spot; sixth vein with the basal half creamy, the apical half dark, except a 

 small yellow patch where it joins the wing border; fringe brown, with a yellow 

 spot at the junction of each vein. 



Length. — 5 mm. 



cJ. Last two joints of the palpi swollen and clavate, pale, basal joints dark brown, 

 densely scaled with deep brown scales, with a narrow pale band, not quite as long 

 as the thin proboscis, which is brown, with yellow labellae; antennae grey, with 

 narrow brown bands and flaxen brown hairs, the apical joint about half the length 

 of the penultimate joint; basal lobe of the genitalia simple, claspers long and thin; 

 fore ungues unequal, the larger one uniserrated, the smaller minute and simple; 

 mid and hind ungues small, equal and simple. 



Wings much as in the 2, but the fork-cells shorter. 



Length. — 5 mm., with proboscis 7.5 mm. 



Habitat. — Grenada (Dr. Hatton, per Dr. Daniels). 



Time of capture. — February. 



Observations. — ^Very like A. punctipennis, Say, but can at once be told by the 

 wing fringe being spotted at the apex of each nerve, and by the marking of the 

 sixth long vein. The description is drawn up from" two specimens in balsam, so 



