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tunately, when larvae wore required for description and preservation, 

 none were to be found. The larva was found in all sorts of clean 

 waters and was the commonest Anopheles in Karwar. For sketches 

 vide Plate, figs. 2a and 2b. 



is chiefly characterised by long white tips to the 

 palpi, light coloured wings, and by the last two and a 

 quarter joints of the tarsi of the hind legs being all white except for a 

 broad black band on the middle of the 4th tarsal joiut. 



Palpi : with long white tips comprising the two apical joints divided 

 into two by a narrow black band on the apical joint ; there being be- 

 side two narrow white bands at the apex of the 1st and 2nd segments, 

 the distal white band being separated from the long white area by 

 another black band (fig. 2b). There are thus two broad black bands 

 and two broad white bands as well as two narrow black bauds and two 

 narrow white bands. In the male the white areas of the palpus do 

 not form complete bands. 



Proboscis : black ; same length as palpi. 



Antenna; : slender, with silver-grey hairs. 



Head : with a very well marked crest of silver-grey hairs and scales 

 of the same colour. 



Thorax : dark, covered with silver-grey hairs dorsally. There are 

 slightly marked dorsal and dorso-lateral lines of a darker colour. On 

 either side of the mid-line there is a black spot. 



Pleurae : decorated with silver-grey hairs. 



Halteres : black -knobbed, with fuscous stems. 



Abdomen : dark brown with light brown hairs on the segmental 

 margins ; a sub-lateral white spot on segments 2 and 4. 



Wing : transverse vein 2 is slightly external to 3, 4 is much internal 

 to both. 



Legs : last two and quarter tarsal joints of the hind-leg white, except 

 for a broad black band on the middle of the 4th joint. All other 

 articulations light coloured, most marked in the hind legs. There is 

 no sign of maculation. The claws are normal. 



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