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banded with yellow, the end ones paler than the rest. Thorax 

 dorsally grey, with median and lateral reddish-brown lines, and 

 deep brown laterally. Abdominal segments dark brown, darkest 

 on their hind borders, nude, with golden hairs. Second joint of 

 ? antennae longer than the two following it. Scutellum with 

 three exceptionally dense tufts of long golden hairs. 



$ . — Head black, except for a scanty yellowish frontal tuft and a pair 

 of lateral patches on the vertex, where the elsewhere black forked scales 

 are white ; palpi deep red-brown, with the apex and three rings on the 

 articulations white. Halteres yellowish, with dark knobs. Legs very 

 thin, sooty, but for snowy spots on the apices of the femora and tibise. 

 contrasting markedly with the pallid coxte. Length. — 5 to 5'2 mm. 



Habitat. — Salisburj', Mashonaland ; Zomba. 



Time of ca-jitiire. — June, Mashonaland ; January, Zomba. 



Observations. — Described from three ? 's. At first sight thej' look 

 like large A. fwnestus, but the clear pale bases to the legs separate it at 

 once, as well as the large wings and the marked characters of the jet- 

 black legs, with white spots at the knees and apices of the tibiae. 



20. ANOPHELES SUPERPICTUS, Grassi. 



(Venti Specie di Zanzare Italianne, p. 87 (1899), Ficalbi ; Reale Accad. d. 

 Lincei Stud. d. uno Zool. sulla Malaria, p. 78 (1900), Grassi.) 



Plate ix, fig. 10a, Wing of ? ; 10b, Venation of g wing. 



"Wing with the costa black at the apex and at the base, where 

 there is a single basal dot, the remainder of the costa sub-divided 

 into nearly equal lengths of yellowish and black, so that counting 

 the basal and apical black portions, there are five black and four 

 yellow spots, the remaining long veins show long white and 

 black portions, the former but little preponderating ; fringe 

 entirely dark, except at the apex. Legs banded on the tibio- 

 tarsal and tarsal articulations. Thorax with the dorsum browner 

 at the sides. Abdominal segments brownish-yellow, with darker 

 hind borders ; very hairy, but absolutely devoid of scales on either 

 the dorsum or venter. 



" Proboscis nearly black, but whitisb at the tip. Palpi of the ? , 

 nearly as long as the proboscis, almost black, with white rings at the 

 junction of the second and third, and fourth and fifth, as well as the 

 entire terminal joint white. Nape black, with a median white tuft. 

 Legs with the femora brownisli, those of the first pair not proxunally 

 dilated. The remainder of the joints brownish-black, with white rings at 

 the tibio-tarsal and tarsal articulations affecting mainly the apices of the 

 proximal joints." — (Extracts from original description.) Length. — 5 to 

 8 mm. 



