38 A Monograph of Culicidae. 



Moreover this species has different larval habits. It lives in 

 tree holes with triseriatus and signifer. The larvae rarely go to 

 the bottom, they assume a horizontal position. This species 

 winters in the larval stage. 



The specimens were collected on Plummer's Island, Maryland, 

 in August, by Mr. H. S. Barber. Type in the U.S. National 

 Museum (No. 6959). Other localities given are in New Jersey, 

 at Chester and Morris County (September 6th) (J. B. Smith). 



Anopheles eiseni. Coquillett (1902). 



Journ. N. York Ent. Soc. x., p. 192 (1902), Coquillett; Kevis. Anop., p. 24, 



7 (1904), Giles. 



Coquillett described this species from Aguna, Guatemala 

 (2000 feet). 



In his recent classification of the mosquitoes of North and 

 Middle America Coquillett gives in the table of Anopheles this 

 species under the following characters : Front margin of wings 

 wholly black ; sixth or last vein wholly black ; first vein with a 

 patch of yellow scales before its middle and another on the apex ; 

 hind tibiae yellowish-white scaled on the apical fourth. 



Length. — 3 ■ 5 mm. 



Anopheles smithii. Theobald (1905). 

 The Entomologist, Vol. XXXIX., p. 101 (1905). 



Head black, with a patch of frosty grey scales in front ; 

 proboscis black ; palpi black, with three narrow pale bands, apex 

 black. Antennae with outstanding scales as well as hairs on the 

 second segment giving a tufted appearance. Thorax frosty-grey 

 in the middle, deep brown at the sides and with a median black 

 line and brown hair-like scales. Abdomen all black with dull 

 golden hairs. Legs black, unhanded. Wings unspotted, the 

 veins clothed with dense dark brown scales. 



9 Head black, with a patch of frosty-grey upright forked 

 scales in front, dense black upright forked scales behind, over 

 which shows a prominent tuft of large grey narrow-curved scales 

 projecting forwards from the thorax ; several thick black bristles 

 project forwards between the eyes ; proboscis and clypeus black, 

 the former thin, palpi as long as proboscis, thin, scaly, black, 

 with three pale bands, the apical segment black. Antennae 

 black, the second segment with a small dense tuft of hairs on 



