A New Genus and Species of Mosquito From Colombia, Galindomyia Leei (Diptera, Culicidae, Culicini)

GALINDOMYIA, monobasic for leei, a crab hole breeding species of mosquito, is described from Colombia. Many thousands of mosquitoes were collected in the Rio Raposo study area on the Pacific Coast of Colombia in the course of arbovirus studies by the Virus Section of the Faculty of Medicine of the Universidad de1 Valle. The Rio Raposo is a small river which empties into the Pacific Ocean at a point about 40 km S of Buenaventura at 3 "40' N latitude and 75 "5' W longitude. Near the con- fluence of the river with the ocean there is a belt of mangrove swamp, upstream from which there is a transitional zone of brackish-fresh water swamp forest that gradually merges landward with the rain forest vegetation on the slopes of the Western Cordillera of the Andes. A general description of the Colombian Pacific Coast is given by West ( 1957), and a more detailed account of the ecology of the Rio Raposo area appears in Lee & Barreto (1968). In 1965 Dr Vernon H. Lee made several collections of mosquitoes from crab holes at the mouth of the Rio Raposo. These included Deino- ce Grant TW-00143 from the Office of International Research,