Genus Anopheles. 



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Anopheles (?) crucians. Wiedemann (1828). 



Aussereup. Zweifliig. Ins., p. 12 (1828), Wiedemann; Bull. No. 4 (n. s.) 

 U. S. Dept. Agri. Div. Ento., p. 23 (1896), Howard ; Circ. 40, 2nd se. 

 U. S. A. Dept. Agri., p. 4 (1899) ; Coquillett; Bull. No. 25 (n. s.) U. S. 

 Dept. Agri. Div. Ent., p. 44 (1900), Howard ; Handbk. Gnats, p. 165, 

 20 (1900) ; 2nd ed., p. 324, 40 (1902), Giles; Mosquitoes, p. 240 (1901), 

 Howard; Mono. Culicid. I., p. 204, 35 (1901) , Theobald ; Les Moust., 

 p. 171 (1905), Blanchard; Mosq. N. Jersey, p. 169 (1905), Smith. 



I have been unable to obtain any specimens of this 

 Anophelite. The best description is that given by Smith, and 

 judging from this it cannot be placed in Anopheles at all, for 

 he says "thorax striped with greyish scales," and again, " mottled 

 at the sides with greyish scales and with narrow stripes of scales 

 of the same colour down the central part." 



I append his description in full, leaving the generic position 

 until I have been able to examine specimens.* 



" Head dark brown, with scattered yellowish scales at the 

 angles of the eyes and a tuft of yellowish hairs from between 



Fig. 5. 



Anopheles crucians. Wied. 



Head, antenna, and labium of larva (after Smith). 



the eyes projecting forward over the head. Another line of 

 similarly coloured scales forms a border to the posterior margin 



* Since going to press Miss Ludlow sends me a note that the palpi 

 have the last joint entirely white (silvery grey) and very narrow white 

 bands at the bases of penultimate and antepenultimate joints, sometimes 

 involving both sides. 



