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Halteres have light bases, with heavy dark knob. 



Length, 10 mm. (proboscis 3.5 mm.). 



Habitat : Camp John Hay, Benguet, P. I. 



Taken March 20, 1908. 



This large and beautifully marked Anopheles is the first of this genus 

 to be received from the P. I., and shows the characteristic habitat of 

 Anopheles in the tropics, coming from the high mountain regions of 

 Benguet. 



Pseuilourauotcenia parangensis % n. sp. — (Female). 



Head brown, covered with flat scales, dark brown except a broad 

 band of white scales around the eyes, meeting at the vertex, a few black 

 bristles projecting forward ; antennae brown, verticels and pubescence 

 brown, basal joint testaceous ; palpi minute, brown ; proboscis brown, 

 apex swollen ; clypeus brown ; eyes brown. 



Thorax : prothoracic lobes heavily clothed with white flat scales ; 

 mesonotum brown, partly denuded, but with brown curved scales scattered 

 over it and more completely covering it laterally, a line of outstanding 

 white or bluish-white scales extending from the wing joint cephalad about 

 one-half the length of the mesonotum ; scutelium brown, with brown flat 

 scales ; pleura dark brown, with a pronounced line of white flat scales ; 

 metanotum brown. 



Abdomen brown, with dark brown scales and a white median spot 

 extending over most of the dorsal aspect on the first, second, third and 

 fourth segments, better developed on the third and fourth ; venter light. 



Legs : coxre and trochanters light ; femora brown, ventrally lighter ; 

 tibiae brown, and on the fore and mid legs all the tarsal joints brown ; on 

 the hind legs the first and second tarsals are brown, the third, fourth 

 and fifth pure white ; ungues simple and equal. 



Wings partly denuded, mostly brown-scaled, but half the length of 

 the stem of the fifth, and the bases of the sixth with white roundish scales; 

 fringe unspotted ; the cells very short, the first submarginal a little shorter 

 and somewhat narrower than second posterior cell ; mid and supernumer- 

 ary cross-veins of about equal length and meet, posterior cross-vein longer 

 than mid and its own length distant interiorly. Halteres with white 

 stem and black knob. 



Length, about 5 mm., of which the proboscis is nearly 2.5 mm. 



Habitat : Parang Mindanoa, P. I. 



Taken : Collection undated, summer of 1908. 



