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^ . — Head black, with a rather scanty bifid snowy frontal tuft and 

 snowy scales on the nape. Proboscis and antennie fuscous. Palpi 

 black, considerably longer than the proboscis, unhanded but elaborately 

 maculated with snowy patches throughout their entire length. Pleurie 

 black with silvery markings. Halteres with pale stem and dark knobs. 

 Venter sooty. Length. — About 5 mm. 



Habitat. — Salisbury, Mashonaland. 



7. ANOPHELES FULIGINOSUS, Giles (First Edition, p. 160). 



= An. Uucopus, Donitz ; Insect. Borse, 5-18 January, 1901, p. 37. 



Plate viii, fig. 7a, Wing $ ; 7b, Palpi ? ; 7c, Palpi <? ; 7d, Scale from 



lobe of scutellum. 



Wing spotted ; costa black, except at apex and base, and in- 

 terrupted by three fairly large yellowish spots, involving the aux. 

 and I. There are also two small black dots on the white basal 

 portion of the costa only, and numerous black dots on the long 

 veins. Last three hind tarsal joints and apex of second wholly 

 white ; first, second and third tarsal joints of fore and mid 

 legs apically tawny banded. Thorax black, with whitish yellow 

 scales. Abdomen black, with some (mostly basal) white scales, 

 and numerous golden hairs on the segments. 



Head black, with a distinct bifid white tuft ; palpi of J black with 

 white tuft, and two narrow but distinct white bands on the articulations 

 next to it ; the coxse have numerous silvery tufts ; the large black 

 costal spot next but one to base extends to the corresponding portion 

 of I, but is divided into three by two minute white interruptions. The 

 wing behind I, is mainly pale ferruginous, but there are numerous 

 black portions on the long veins, and the internal fringe shows distinct 

 tawny interruptions opposite each longitudinal junction. Scutellum deep 

 slaty-black, with creamy-white scales, which form two lateral tufts, 

 small black bristles on the mid lobe, long ones at the sides ; pleurip 

 deep slaty-brown ; metanotum deep brown to black. 



This is lloss's " small dapple wing." Length. — 3*5 to 4*2 mm. 



Habitat. — Chingelput, ]\Iadras (common), Quilon, Punjab, Cal- 

 cutta, Behar, Bengal. 



Time of capture. — Madras in March, Punjab in June. 



7a. ANOPHELES PALLIDUS, Theob. (Monog. 1, p. 143.) 



A pale form of the above species, the wing of which is figured 

 on plate viii, fig. 8a, is described as a variety, Anopheles pallidas, 

 in Mr. Theobald's monograph. It is further distinguished from 

 the darker form by the peculiarity of having the short inner rank 

 of fringing wing scales concave at the end instead of rounded, 

 vide plate viii, fig. 7e and 8b. 



