Vol. I,j)arf 2, issued March Sfh, 1007. 



CHARACTERISTICS OF LARV.E OF ANOPHELINA. Ill 



A Contribution to the Study of the Character- 

 istics of Larvae of Species of Anophelina in 

 South Africa. 



By 



i:rnc<i*t Hill, D.P.H.Caiiib., 



;nid 



L. (i. Ilaydoii, :?I.B., C.^I., D.P.H.Aberd. 



With Plates XV— XXVI. 



PEEFATOEY NOTE. 



When this paper had been completed and was about to be sent 

 to press a letter Avas received from Colonel Giles, who had with his 

 usual kindness examined specimens of the species which we have 

 throughout called Myzomyia funesta, and states that they are 

 of Pyretophorus pitchfordi Power. Colonel Griles, however, 

 admits that the difference between the palpal banding of our 

 specimens and those sent him by Mr. Power is so marked that his 

 description of the latter is hardly appropriate to the former. Wc 

 have the greatest respect for the opinion of Colonel Giles on such a 

 matter, but this species which we have called funesta, as repre- 

 sented in our collection, appears to us to differ, both in respect of 

 the markings of wings and palpi, quite as much from Giles' 

 description of pitchfordi as it does from Theobald's description 

 of funesta, while we should have had no hesitation in describing 

 wing scales as mostly long and narrow, which is the chief point, 

 as we understand it, by which Myzomyia is distinguished by 

 Theobald from Pyretophorus, in which the scales are described 

 as lanceolate. Further, some wdiile back, specimens were sent to 

 Mr. PoAver, who first despatched specimens of pitchfordi to 

 Giles, and he expressed himself as luiable to determine them, with- 

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