GENUS ANOPHELES 



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many acknowledged, distinct members of this closely allied series ; 

 and hence it appears on the whole preferable to let it stand as 

 distinct under the above name. 



Head black, with a very meagre whitish fi-ontal tuft ; palpi of S 

 brown, with three whitish patches along the inner border of its club, and 

 a few white scales near the base ; those of $ black with whitish tip, and 

 very faint white bands on tlie last three articulations. Coxae marbled 

 with dark patches surrounded by grey lines. The wing has the excep- 

 tional peculiarity of having the ininute shortest rank of marginal scales 

 white. Abdomen black, nude, with brownish hairs. Length. — Over 

 5 mm. 



Habitat. — Salisbury, Mashonaland ; Central Africa ; Gold Coast ; 

 Mauritius. 



6. ANOPHELES MACULIPALPIS, sp. n. 



Fig. 41. — Wing of An. maculipalpis o (diagrammatic). 



Wings with the costa black, interrupted by four minute, 

 almost snowy spots, in addition to a couple of basal dots : of 

 the four outer spots, one is sub-apical ; one just outside the base 

 of the anterior fork cell ; the third and largest, just inside the 

 cross veins and the fourth well inside the origin of II ; there is 

 an additional white spot on I, interrupting the long black area 

 between the two last mentioned spots, and most of the long veins 

 show one or more white spots, but the internal fringe is uni- 

 formly dark. Last three hind tarsal joints and apex of the next 

 yellowish-white, but the tarsi otherwise quite unhanded ; though, 

 together with all the other leg joints, elaborately spotted with 

 patches of dark and light scales throughout their entire length. 



Ground colour of thorax sooty, marked by broad and distinct 

 median and lateral stripes of white tomentum, the former bi- 

 furcating behind, besides which there were obviously numerous 

 white scales when fresh. Abdomen black and hirsute through- 

 out, but devoid of scales. 



