THE ANOPHELINA SUE-FAMILY 283 



ANOPHELES, Meigen (as restricted by Theobald). 



"Characters of the Genus.— Head with both flat and narrow 

 curved scales, but mamly covered with large upright forked scales {vide 

 fig. 38) ; palpi long ui both sexes, usually about the length of the pro- 

 boscis, 4-jointed in the ?, 3-jointed in the t^, but constrictions at the 

 base apparently make the $ 5 or B-jointed and the J^ 4 or 5-jointed ; 

 in the 3" the last two joints are short, thick, and often olive-shaped. 

 Antennge 14-jointed, filiform, pilose in the 5 , pluinose in the <? , and 

 15-jointed. 



" Thorax sometimes nude on the dorsum, usually with narrow curved 

 or small spindle-shaped flat scales. Abdomen generally pilose, but some- 

 times with a few scales, and rarely with many {A. Fharoensis, milii). 

 Wings covered with small scales of normal form or inflated, with the 

 first sub-marginal cell longer and narrower than the second posterior 

 cell ; both the second and third long veins run past the cross-veins into 

 the basal cells, a character which I have noticed very marked in all 

 species examined." — (Monog. I, p. 115.) 



Another character, the importance of which was originally 

 pointed out in the first edition, and which the examination of 

 the large accumulation of new material has shown to be of 

 thoroughly generic value, is that both fork-cells appear to be 

 uniformly smaller, and with longer stems in the male than in 

 the female. In the female the anterior fork-cell is usually 

 distinctly longer, though narrower, than the posterior, but in the 

 male the anterior is seldom longer than the posterior, and is in 

 some cases of dimensions almost recalling those of the wing in 

 Megarhina. 



The arrangement of the scales of the wing-veins, though 

 essentially of the Culex type, often recalls that of TaniorhyncJms 

 in its general appearance, being much denser than is usually the 

 case in the former genus ; for though the linear scales are not 

 broad and round at the end, as in the later, they are usually 

 broader than in Culex, and of a lanceolate outline (pi. xi, 

 figs. 5a, b, c, d), in place of being narrower and square-ended. 



The genus is very widely distributed, though individual 

 species rarely are spread over as wide an area as some Culices, 

 and taken generically, they do not extend into as high latitudes 

 as Culex. Apart from these limitations, I believe that a map of 

 the world, coloured to show localities in which they are found, 

 would, if the truth were known, show well nigh the entire 

 habitable globe of that tint, and that the many gaps in the 

 existing map of the monograph really show that we know little 

 on this point about these localities. 



