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Orleans, Louisiana, May, 1904 (C. E. Riggs) ; Lake Catherine, Louisiana, June 

 5, 1901 (G. B. Beyer) ; Baton Eouge, Louisiana, May 12, 1904 (E. S. G. Titus) ; 



Victoria, Texas, November 20, 1902 ( ) ; Dallas, Texas, September 14, 



1905 (W. B. Hinds) ; Hotchkiss, Colorado, August 20, 29, 1911 (G. P. Weldon) ; 

 Delta, Colorado, July 18, 1911 (G. P. Weldon) ; Logan, Cache County, Utah, 

 October 15, 1913 (C. T. Vorhies) ; Utah County, Utah, September, 1910 (C. T. 

 Vorhies); Helena, Arkansas, July 30, 1904 (H. S. Barber); Little Eock, 

 Arkansas, July 11, 1904 (H. S. Barber) ; Fort Smith, Arkansas, July 7, 1904 

 (H. S. Barber) ; Scott, Pulaski County, Arkansas, August 11, 1909 (J. K. 

 Thibault, Jr.) ; St. Louis, Missouri, June, 1904 (A. Busck) ; Urbana, Illinois, 

 September 29, 1904 (P. Knab) ; Lake Maxinkuckee, Indiana (B. W. Ever- 

 mann) ; Saxeville, Wisconsin, June 17, 1909 (B. K. Miller) ; Osceola, Wisconsin, 



April 10, 1903 ( ) ; Santiago Maravatio, Salvatiera, State of Guanajuato, 



Mexico (A. Duges) ; Tampico, Mexico (J. Goldberger). Eeported also from 

 Vera Cruz, Mexico (Parker, Beyer and Pothier) . 



This species has been generally considered the Anopheles qtiadrimaculatus 

 described by Say in 1824, but it appears that the name in reality applies to the 

 form herein treated under the specific name occidentalis. This is apparent from 

 the distribution and from Say's locality, "North-west Territory." Unfortu- 

 nately we did not make this observation in time to introduce the necessary 

 corrections in the text. The present species should be known as Anopheles 

 guttulatus Harris. The name guttulatus was introduced without description 

 for a probable variety of quadrimaculatus, and its significance being clear by 

 association, it can be considered available. In 1864 Loew treated the species as 

 identical with the European Anopheles macuUpennis Meigen, and also referred 

 his Anopheles pictus from Asia Minor as a synonym of it. American authors, 

 however, held it distinct, until Theobald, in 1901, again referred it as a synonym 

 to A. macuUpennis. Blanchard and Theobald subsequently refer to our species 

 as the American form of macuUpennis. Dyar and Knab, in 1906, again dis- 

 tinguished the species and adopted the name quadrimaculatus. Van der Wulp, 

 in 1867, described a male collected by Thore Kumlien in Wisconsin as Anopheles 

 annulimanus, and this is said also to belong here. 



We are sceptically inclined toward the record from Vera Cruz, Mexico, by 

 Parker, Beyer and Pothier ; no fresh material of this species has been received 

 from tropical Mexico and we doubt that its range extends into the tropical zone, 



ANOPHELES ATROPOS Dyar & Knab. 



Anopheles atropos Dyar & Knab, Proc. Biol. See. Wash., xix, 160, 1906. 



Anopheles atropos Theobald, Men. Culic, v, 85, 1910. 



Anopheles atropos Knab, Amer. Journ. Trop. Dls. & Prev. Med., i, 36, 1913. 



Obiginai, Description of Anophei-es atbopos: 



Deep black; thorax obscurely lined with violaceous, especially posteriorly. Head, 

 abdomen and legs black, no markings on the pleurae. Wing scales outstanding, 

 uniform, not forming spots, though a little thicker at the usual points, indicating 

 the spottings. 



Allied to A. quadrimaculatus Say, but rather smaller, and deep black, not brown, 

 the abdomen without traces of the lighter bandings. 



Seven specimens, Florida Keys (Dr. Hiram Byrd). 



Type.— Ca.t. No. 10,029, U. S. Nat. Mus. 



Description op Female op Anopheles atropos (Male and Larva Unknown) : 



Female. — Proboscis long, straight, slender; labellse long, lanceolate, black, 

 with small outstanding black setae ; vestiture appressed, black. Palpi as long 

 as the proboscis, uniform, slender, clothed with narrow elliptical black scales, 

 roughened at base, a few setas at tip; an indistinct whitish ring at base of 

 penultimate joint. Antennfe filiform, the joints subequal, rugose, black, with 

 long black pile ; hairs of whorls sparse, black, short ; tori subspherical, with a 

 (^up-shaped apical excavation, small, black. Clypeus elongate elliptical, dark 

 brown, nude. Eyes well separated, black. Occiput with a median groove, 



