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lines dorsally and another pair laterally. Abdominal segments 

 dark, nude, blacker on their hinder borders. 



Extract from original description : — 



" A small black Mosquito. The female is small, 3"5 millimetres in 

 length and having wings three millimetres long. The head is black with 

 light-coloured hairs ; the antennae have light-coloured joints ; the palpi 

 are black with three yellow marks ; and the proboscis is black except at 

 the apex. The wings have the four black spots on the costal margins 

 separated by yellowish spaces. Of these spots the first is the longest, 

 extending along about one-third of the costal margin, and the other three 

 are much smaller. The legs are in general dark coloured ; the femora 

 are not yellowish at the base, and the tibiae are not yellowish on the 

 outer side. The tarsi are ringed distally and proxinially. The male is 

 much the same as the female. Its length is four millimetres, and the 

 length of the wing is three millimetres. Its habitat is in dwelling- 

 houses in Kumasi, Ashanti, West Africa." 



24. ANOPHELES ANNULIPES, Walker. 



= An, mnsicus, Skuse. 



(Ins. Saund. i, p. 433 (1850), annulipes, Walker ; Proc. Linn. See. N.S. 

 Wales, p. 1754 (1889), musicus, Skuse.) 



Plate ix, 3a, Wing of ? ; 3b, Wing of <? . 



Wing with the black costa interrupted by three smaller white 

 spots (the outermost of which is wanting in the <? ), and the pale 

 base marked with two black dots in both sexes. There is also 

 a ferruginous apical spot and all the veias of the wing field are 

 elaborately beaded with black dots. The upper tarsal joints 

 are all more or less apically light banded, bub the last two are 

 all dark ; all the femora and tibiae elaborately white banded. 

 Thorax dark with white scales, leaving indistinct, anterior 

 median, and oblique, posterior lateral, bare lines. Abdomen 

 sooty, nude, but for golden-brown hairs. 



Head black, with scanty frontal tuft and the fork scales of nape black, 

 but a triangular tuft of those on the vertex white. Palpi of ? snowy 

 in front, impure white at the base ; the joints with four narrow, but 

 sharply defined basal black bands, a trifie shorter than proboscis in both 

 sexes ; those of J brown, with indistinct patches of whitish or grey in 

 corresponding situations to those of $ . The anterior border of the 

 thorax has a striking tuft of long, white, lanceolate scales, especially well 

 marked in the ? . Pleurae and coxas mainly brown, with some greyish 

 marbUng. Halteres with snowy stems and brownish knobs. 



The brilliant black and white beading of all parts of this species is 

 very striking. The first tarsal joints of the $ fore legs alone have a 



