64 riii'; MostiirroKs ok koyit, puk sidan and abyssinia 



Genus Anopheles, Moiijen 

 Syst. Bc'schr. 1, lU (181S), Mi'i^a-ii ; Mono. Culicid. 1., p. 11') (lOnl), Theobald, 

 and Ili., p. 17 (1903). 



Anopheka irdlcoinei, n. sp. 

 (Plates I., Figs. 5 & 6 ; III., Fig. 4, & V., Fig. r>) 



Head bliu'k with dense ■white, yellow and brown upright forked scales, the wliite 

 ones in front and two long hair-like projecting white tufts ; palpi yellow, black at 

 the base Avith two white ])ands on the yellow area. Thorax ashy, chestnut-ljrown 

 at the sides and Avitli hair-like golden scales ; abdomen broAvii, unhanded with 

 brownish-golden hairs. Wings mostly yellow scaled, costa jet black with two yellow 

 spots and three or four black spots on the wing field. 



Female. Head l:)lack densely clothed -ndth large upright forked scales giving it 

 a ragged appearance, white in front, yellow in the middle, lilack behind and at the 

 sides; projecting foi'wards are two j)rominent tufts of long white haii'-like scales ; 

 antenna; brown Avith pale hairs and the basal six or seven joints Avith many white 

 scales, basal segment bright reddish-broAvn ; proboscis with basal half lilack, apical 

 half ochreous; palpi not quite as long as the proboscis, basal third lilack scak'd, 

 apical tAvo-thirds bright ochreous with an almost white apical band and a jnn-e 

 white band aliout one-fourth the Avay down. 



Thorax ashy-grey with a broad dark median stripe and chestnut-brown laterally, 

 two more or less yellowish lines on the grey median area seen only in certain lights 

 and under |rd power, scales haii'-like and pallid golden, except in front over the head, 

 where there are grey and long narrow-curved scales ; the hair-like scales form a 

 prominent double row on each yellow line ; scutellum and mctanotum ]iale brf)Avn ; 

 pleura^ pale ochreous brown. 



Abdomen brown, ochreous yentrally, with pale In-own hairs, most dense on the 

 venter. 



Wings (Plate I., Figs. 5 ct 6) with the costa jet black, with two prominent, 

 rich yellow sjjots on the apical half ; apex of -wing yellmv ; first long vein yellow 

 with a black spot near the apex under a small apical black costal spot, traces of 

 two smaller ones nearer the base; subcostal black; second long vein yt'llow with 

 a black spot on both branches of the fork-cell just imder the black spot on the 

 fii*st long vein ; third long vein all yellow, with a minute apical black spot and 

 another tninute one at its ])ase just past the cross-veins ; fourth long vein yellow 

 with t\vo duskv spots on the upper and one on the lower branches of the 

 fork-cell, and a few on one side of its stem; fifth long vein yellow, a few l)]ack 

 scales at the base of the upper branch, and a trace of an apical spot; sixth 

 vellow Avith a black median spot; fi-inge ])lack Avith yelloAV spots at the 

 junction of all the veins, Avith tlie border and the givater part of the fringe 

 from the sixth A'cin to the ])ase yelloAV ; first sul)niarginal cell longer and 

 narroAver tlian the second posterior cell, its l)ase nearer the base of the Aving, 

 its stem slijrhth^ more than half tlie len<rtli of flu- cell; stem of the second 



