Genus Anopheles. 
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Anopheles ^punctipennis. Say (1823). 
Culex hyemalis. Fitch (1851). 
Journ. Acad. Nat'. Sc. Philad. III. (1823), Say; Mono. Culicid. I., 189 
(1901) and IV., 27 (1907), Theobald. 
North America. 
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Anopheles pseudopunctipennis. Theobald (1901). 
Mono. Culicid. II., 305 (1901), Theobald. 
Grenada and Mexico. 
Type in the British Museum. 
Anopheles perplexens. Ludlow (1907). 
Canad. Entomo. XXXIX., p. 267, 1907. 
“ ? . Head dark, with dark brown and white fork scales, the 
latter nearer the vertex, and a heavy tuft of slender, long curved 
white scales projecting cephalad between the eyes; antennae 
dark brown, verticels and pubescence dark, basal joint brown ; 
palpi dark, covered with dark brown scales, a small tuft of white 
hairs at the very tip; proboscis dark with brown scales, tip 
testaceous ; clypeus dark, eyes brown. 
Thorax: prothoracic lobes testaceous, with dark hairs ; 
mesonotum with broad, light median stripe, covered with white 
‘ frost,’ and white hairs arranged so as to suggest a ‘ part,’ a 
dark median line extending half way to the scutellum, and two 
dark lateral bordering lines ; more or less of a tuft of these hairs 
at the nape ; laterad the dorsum is dark brown, with dark brown 
hairs ; pleura brown ; scutellum testaceous, ‘ frosty,’ with brown 
bristles ; metanotum dark brown. 
Abdomen dark brown, with light hairs (no scales). 
Legs, coxae and trochanters light, mostly light scaled ; femora 
ventrally light scaled, and extreme tips of femora and tibiae 
ochraceous, remainder of legs dark brown ; ungues simple. 
Wings clear, and rather heavily clothed with dark brown 
scales, except a few small ochraceous spots—one on the costa, 
just interior to a line drawn through the junction of the branches 
of the fork cells, a second tiny spot at the junction of the first 
long vein with the costa, extending a tiny bit on the long vein, 
and two very small faint ligAt spots on the forks of the fourth 
