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Habitat. — Sent me by Dr. Price, I. M.S., Retd., of Conoor, Nehilgerri 

 Hills, where the speeies is fairly common, though it does not appear 

 to occur in the plains, Conoor lying at an elevation of over 6,000 feet 

 above the sea level. 



29. ANOPHELES CULICIFACIES, sp. n. 



Plate ix, fig. 12a, Wing of ? ; 12b, AVmg of <? . 



Wings with the costa black, except at the apex, interrupted 

 by four small straw-coloured spots, which are progressively 

 smaller from base to apex, all involving the second long vein ; 

 there is another distinct light spot over the cross-veins, and three 

 more on the principal bifurcations of the long veins, but in the 

 main, the wing is very dark, and the fringe shows no pale 

 patches. Tarsi unhanded, nearly black. Thorax dark grounded, 

 covered witli yellow scales so arranged as to show a median 

 and a pair of lateral dark bare lines. Abdominal segments con- 

 spicuously basally banded with yellowish, being in the fresh state 

 completely clothed with yellowish and deep brown scales. 



Head black, with whitish fork scales on the vertex, but with the 

 frontal tuft ill-marked ; antennae of 3" dark brown, about three-fourths 

 the length of the proboscis, palpi of $ black, about the length of the 

 proboscis, with j'ellowish rings on the two last articulations, and a lighter 

 tip ; of ? , black, except the whole of the last joint, and two bands on 

 the next two articulations, which are straw-coloured, and as the penulti- 

 mate joint is long, the second band is well down towards the base. Legs 

 black throughout, except a minute yellow band on the apices of the 

 tibiae. When seen at rest this mosquito presents a close resemblance to 

 (7. /a^'ig'a.ns, Wied., as apart from the conspicuous abdominal banding, 

 the female habitually sits, humped up, like a Cidex, while even the 

 males keep the body no more than parallel to the surface they rest on. 

 Length. — 3"5 to 4 mm. 



Habitat. — Hoshangabad, Central Provinces ; and the Berars, India. 



30. ANOPHELES PICTUS, Loew. 



(Dipt. Beitr. (1845), Loew; Bull. Ent. See. d. Ital. xxviii, p. 232, Ficalbi.) 



Wings with yellow spots, two prominent, and a third indis- 

 tinct, on the dark costa. Tarsi not perceptibly banded iu 

 ordinary lights. Thorax dorsally grey, with five longitudinal 

 black lines, dark brown laterally. Abdomen brownish. 



This species is evidently nearer An. ficnestus, mihi, than to the 

 Sinensis group, but no specimens answering to the subjoined original 

 description have reached the British Museum. 



" Thorax dorsally cinereous, with five longitudinal black lines, 

 between wliich the greyish-white shows ; in front of the scuteUum 

 which has the formi of a transverse line, and is brownish-yellow, is a boat- 



