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band in the middle, but tiie tibia and femora are tiie most striking part 

 of the legs in tliis respect. Length. — fi to 6 mm. 



Habitat. — Bupengary, Queensland ; Elizabeth Bay, near Sydney ; 

 Mt. Kembla, lUawarra, N.S.W. 



Time of appearance. — In Queensland in December (Bancroft) ; in 

 N.S. Wales in February (Skuse). 



25. ANOPHELES MASTERSI, Skuse. 



[Proc. Liun. See. N.S. Wales, p. 1757 (1889).] 



Plate ix, fig. 4a, Wing of ? ; 4b, Wing of 3. 



Wings with the black costa interrupted by two small but 

 obvious spots and by a pair of minute dots midway between 

 the outer and larger spot and a feri'uginous apical spot. The 

 absolute base is white and there are also two miuute white dots 

 near it. Except in the fore legs the apical banding of the tarsal 

 joints is barely perceptible and in all three legs the first meta- 

 tarsal as well as the femora and tibia are elaborately spotted. 

 Thorax black with silvery scales. Abdomen nude with golden- 

 brown hairs. 



This species closely resembles Av. annuUpcs, especially in the head 

 and body, but the light wing spots in the females are much smaller in 

 the present species, the outermost one in tlie $ being represented only 

 by a pair of minute white dots in place of the prominent spot so situated 

 in that species : in the 3 > on the other hand, the outer spot is much tlie 

 larger in An. Mastersi. They are, however, I think, quite distinct. 

 Length. — 4*5 mm. 3 ^^^ $ • 



Habitat. — Bupengary, Queensland (Bancroft, December 5, and May 8 

 and 29, 1899) ; Blue Mountains, N.S.W. (Masters). 



" Observations. — Very like and closely related to the former, but the 

 2 can easily be told from An. annulipes by the proboscis being paler at 

 the tip. It is also smaller in size, and Skuse says tliat the sub-costal 

 transverse vein is placed considerably beyond tlie middle of the auxiliary 

 vein, whilst in Aii. annuUpcs it is situated in the middle." — (Monog. I, 

 p. 165.) 



26. ANOPHELES SQUAMOSUS, Theobald (Monog. I, p. 167). 



Plate ix, fig. Oa, Wing of J ; Ob, Lateral view of tliorax ; 6c, Portion 



of the abdomen. 



Wing with the costa black, including apex and base, with 

 three small spots involving I. and two large basal dots, nearly 

 as large as the spots, but involving the costa only ; II. 

 entirely black, the other long veius about equally divided into 

 white and black lengths ; fringe black, except at the apex, and at 



