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is the internal fringe. The last hind tarsal joints are entirely 

 white, and the remaining joints are white for almost their apical 

 halves ; in the fore and mid legs the upper three joints have 



Pig. 42. — Wing of .^7j. Pharccnsis J, Theob. var. Albofimhriatns, Giles. 



l)road apical bands, and the last two are all black ; all the femora 

 have broad sub-apical garters, and in addition are, together with 

 the tibiae and first tarsals, marbled with black and white. Ground 

 colour of thorax sooty, clothed with white and yellow scales, the 

 latter preponderating behind. 



Although I believe this is merely a variety of An. PJiaroensis, it is 

 exceptionally well defined as such, and could not be recognised unless 

 given a separate place in the tabulation of the genus. Ground colour of 

 head sooty, with a double median stripe of white scales, ending in a 

 strong frontal tuft, and with two large white lateral patches ; antemiae 

 scaly on all but the two end joints, banded black and white, with scanty 

 verticils ; palpi clothed with intermixed black, white, and yellow scales, 

 the proportions varying, so as to form indistinct apical bands to the 

 joints and a tip, paler than the rest of the appendage ; proboscis, dark 

 brown. Abdomen, sooty, clothed with golden-brown scales, arranged so 

 as to form broad apical bands, and a median line on the three or four 

 anterior segments, and to almost entirely cover the rest ; especially dense 

 at the under corners, so as to form fairlj' distinct tufts ; venter with 

 nunrerous white scales. Length. — About 4 mm. 



Habitat. — Tel Zahmul, Palestine. Described from a single ? specimen 

 sent me by Dr. J. Cropper. Mr. Theobald, however, tells me that in a 

 considerable series of An. Pharoensis sent him from the same collection, 

 all had the wing fringe striped in the usual way, and in view of the 

 correspondence of the very peculiar arrangement of the scales of the 

 abdoinen, I conclude that this is no more than a variety. 



14. ANOPHELES LUTZII, Theobald (Monog. I, p. 177). 



Plate ix, fig. 8. 



Wings mainly black ; with three minute yellowish spots on 

 the costa ; one sub-apical, the second just internal to the base 

 of anterior fork, and the third near the base ; there is also a 

 dot on II, midway between the two inner spots, a few white 

 scales about the transverse veins, on the fork of V, and for the 

 middle third of III, and the fringe shows indistinct yellowish 



