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Anophelines (Position uncertain ). 87 
on the under side, which reaches from near the base to beyond the 
middle. 
Length. —3'5 mm. 
One 5 in poor condition, La Boca, Canal Zone, Panama (A. H. 
Jennings, collector). Named at the suggestion of Mr. August Busch 
In honour of Dr. W. C. Gorgas, Assistant Surgeon-General, U.S. Army, 
Chief Sanitary Officer of the Isthmian Canal Commission.” 
Note. —This is apparently a Cellia and not an Anopheles. 
The description is such that we cannot say if it is a valid species, 
and is only drawn up from one bad specimen.—F. V. T. 
Anopheles malefactor. Dyar and Knab (1907). 
Journ. N. York Ent. Soc. XV., 198 (1907). 
“ $ . Palpi long clothed with brown scales and black outstanding 
ones, which are grouped more or less in tufts, heaviest on the basal 
portions, slight sprinkling of lighter scales among the brown ones, 
particularly at the bases of the dark tufts; occiput black scaled, the 
eyes margined with white above, and where they join is a tuft of 
white hairs ; mesonotum grey with reddish and bluish tinge and 
small dark freckles tending to form longitudinal rows, sparsely dis¬ 
tributed narrow yellowish scales, a black spot at the base extending 
over the middle of the scutellum, and two small sublateral black 
spots medially, all three of these show a lighter margin; abdomen 
slender, grey, with lateral tufts of outstanding black scales at the 
apices of the segments ; legs with the femora and tibiae black freckled 
with white, on the hind tibiae yellow scales predominate; tarsi black, 
ringed with white; on the hind legs the first tarsal joint is dark at 
the base, light at the apex and has six white rings of different lengths, 
second joint narrowly white at base, broadly so at apex, with a 
moderately broad white ring near the middle, and another narrower 
one between it and the base, third and fourth joints white ringed at 
base and apex with a broad central white ring, apical segment entirely 
whitish scaled ; wings, spotted, black and white, a large black patch 
‘margined with white on the costa near the middle, more basally a 
small costal patch and towards the apex another large one, all 
margined with white, scaling of the veins in patches of black and 
white scales, third vein with a small black spot at the base, the sixth 
vein with many black dots and dashes. 
Length. —4 • 5 mm. 
cf. Palpi with apical portion clubbed, clothed with yellow scales 
with golden lustre, a narrow dark ring at the middle of the club, the 
shaft ringed with a dull ochreous at the apex and at the constriction, 
and broadly marked with the same colour on the apical portion; 
antennae pale brown and ferruginous with silky lustre. 
Length .—4*5 mm.” 
