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the first three joints of the fore and mid tarsi are apically white- 

 banded. The thorax and scutellum are sooty grounded, with 

 broad lines of white scales, two lateral and two sub-median. 

 Abdomen sooty, nude, with brownish hairs. 



This species was sent me iirst by I^ieut. Glen. Listen, I. M.S., from 

 Ellichpur, m the Berars, with a note pointing out its distinctness from 

 any species mentioned in the first edition, and though on first sorting my 

 collection, I was inclined to regard it as a dark variety of An. Jamesii, 

 its distinctness was at once detected by Mr. Theobald, when we came to 

 compare my collection with the types of that species in the museum. It 

 differs from it in possessing the additional apical white wing-spot, 

 although the wing is generally darker, II. being entirely black ; and in 

 hut two, instead of three of the last hind tar.sals, being all white. 



The head is black, with a bifid white frontal tuft, the nuchal crown 

 white, and the nape black scaled ; antennai black with whitish verticils ; 

 proboscis sooty ; palpi intensely black, with the whole terminal joint and 

 minute apical rings on the next three joints snowy white. Halteres with 

 white stems and black knobs. Legs brindled with white scales through- 

 out, the white preponderating on the lower surfaces, with white knee-spots 

 and a large sub-apical white patch on the femora ; the tibiae and first 

 tarsal joints elaborately white rmged, especially on the mid legs. 

 Length. — About 8 mm. 



Habitat. — Ellichpur, in the Indian Berars, and also taken ui my 

 house at Shahjahanpur, N.W.P.. on October 19th, 1900. 



10. ANOPHELES ALBIPES, Theob. (xMonog. I, p. 125). 



An. Cubensis, Agramonte (el progresso Medico, X, p. 460, December, 1900.) 



Plate viii, fig. 2a, Wing of 2 ; 2b, Head of ? ; 2e, Wing of <y ; 2d, 

 Head of ^ ; 2e, Hind tarsus ; 2f, Tarsal claws of J . 



Wings with the costa black, spotted with five smaller ferru- 

 ginous spots, one over middle of fork-cells, the second just in 

 front of mid cross- veins, and three smaller nearer the base, 

 which may not quite involve all the costa ; other markings on 

 long veins, and the fringe yellow at the tip and spotted at all but 

 the sixth longitudinal junctions. Last three hind tarsal joints, 

 and nearly half the second pure white, save for a black band at 

 the base of the terminal joint ; mid tarsi with little indication of 

 banding ; anterior with three or four apical yellow bauds. 



]\Ir. Theobald originally described this as a distinct species, with 

 which view I am disposed to concur, as in the males the cross-veins are 

 placed 2 II 3, 4 internal, instead of alternate, as in An. argyrotarsis, 

 of which he now regards it as a variety. 



J,— Head with white frontal tuft; palpi rather shorter than the 

 proboscis, black, hirsute at base, with all the end joint and apex of 



