802 GNATS OH MOSQUITOES — CHAPTEU XII 



and lings on the femora, tibi«, and first tarsals. Anterior tarsal claw 

 single, with two accessory teeth. Genitalia of $ clothed with black, 

 spade-shaped scales. Length. — 3"6 to 4 uini. 



Habitat. — Hong-Kong (September and October). 



12. ANOPHELES PHAR(ENSIS, Tbeob. (Monog. I, p. 1G9). 



I'late ix, tig. lii. AVing of $ ; 11), Wing of S \ 1^, Abdomen. 



Wings with the costa black, interrupted in both sexes by a 

 large white spot con:imencing just in front of the transverse veins ; 

 between this and a small apical spot there is in the $ a fair- 

 sized white spot, and in the $ indications of one ; in both sexes 

 there is a third white spot midway between the middle spot 

 and the base of the wing, and there are a couple of basal white 

 dots, but these are much better marked in the female. Almost 

 all the wing field is yellowish, but with scattered black beads on 

 all the long veins ; internal fringe dark, with pale interruptions 

 at the apex and at all the longitudinal junctions. Last hind 

 tarsal joint and apex of next all white ; remaining tarsal joints 

 broadly, apically white-banded, except fourth and fifth, in fore 

 legs. Femora and tibiae maculated. Thorax grey, with a pair 

 of prominent black, eye-like spots. Abdomen black, with greenish- 

 yellow scales produced into apical lateral tufts in each segment. 



Head brown, with mainly white fork-scales. Palpi <? rather longer 

 than proboscis, greenish-brown, with indistinct markings produced by the 

 darker bases of the joints ; those of ? fawn-coloured with tips and apical 

 white bands of the jomts white. Antennsc closely covered with white 

 scales up to the last two joints. The decoration of tlie tliorax is very 

 characteristic, its ground colour behig really dark grey, witli two in- 

 tensely black spots, looking like a pair of eyes. Over this groundmg 

 is arranged a tomentum of greenish-brown scales, arranged so as to leave 

 a pair of nude ant. sub median and of post, oblique lateral lines. The 

 tufts at the sides of the abdominal segments also render this species 

 unmistakable. Length. — 8 mm. ? ; 7 mm. <? . 



Habitat. — Cairo (January), Central Africa, Mashonaland, Syria. 



13. ANOPHELES PHAR(ENSIS, Theob., var. Albofimhriatus. 



Wings with their costa and apex straw coloured, with 4 large 

 black spots, involving II, of about the same length as the pale 

 intervals, the basal pale spot being unsymmetrically T-shaped, 

 and with two black basal dots on the costa only ; the remaining 

 long veins are clothed with pale yellow scales, with the exception 

 of four or five minute black dots ; VI. being entirely pale, as also 



