GENUS ANOPHELES 321 



33a. ANOPHELES, Sp., near Indicus. 



A new form, possibly a variety of the above, has been recently 

 sent by Dr. Christophers from the Darwars in Central India. 

 It differs, however, in having the third large black costal spot 

 subdivided on I. by a yellow spot near its inner end ; in III. 

 being entirely clothed with pale scales and in having an extra 

 pale spot on the internal fringe. 



4. ANOPHELES RHODESIENSIS, Theob. (Monog. I, p. 184). 

 Plate X, fig. 5a, Wing of 5 ; 5b, to show adornment of Thorax. 



Costa dark, with three small creamy and a yellow apical 

 spot ; fringe apically yellow, but not elsewhere interrupted, being 

 formed of lighter scales than the wingfield, but not obviously 

 spotted. Tarsi dark brown, unhanded. Thorax testaceous, nude. 

 Abdomen brownish. 



This species closely resembles An. funestus, mihi, but differs in the 

 position of the yellow wing-spots, which are all three placed relatively 

 further out and are smaller, as well as in the correspondingly small size of 

 the apical spot, and in the position of the transverse veins, for which see 

 figures ; the wing fringe, too, is uninterrupted. The lighter portions of 

 the ? palpi also are much narrower. From An. Listoni, mihi, it is dis- 

 tinguished by the absence of the large yellow spot near the base of the 

 wing and from A71. Costalis, Loew, by the smaller size and number of its 

 lighter spots. The ^ palpi are black throughout save for a small yellow 

 tip, and want the greyish indeterminate brindhng of the clubs of the 

 neighbouring species. The abdomen is scaly and has distinct basal 

 bands, and the thorax shows a distinct median line forking widely 

 behind, and two lateral lines where the dark ground colour shows 

 through the general velvety greyish bloom of the mesonotum. Length. 

 —2-5 to 3 mm. ^ ; 2-8 to 3-5 mm. ? . 



Habitat. — Mashonaland; British Central Africa. 



Time of appearance. — April, in Mashonaland. This new species has 

 been sent in numbers from Central Africa, It does not appear to occur 

 on the coast. 



35. ANOPHELES MINIMUS, Theob. (Monog. I, p. 186). 



Plate X, fig. 7a, Wing of J (diagrammatic) ; 7b, to show Decoration of 

 Thorax ; 7c, scale from anterior border of thorax. 



2 • — "Wings with three, nearly equal, creamy spots on the 

 black costa and an apical spot ; fringe with a yellowish spot at 

 the end of each vein except the sixth. Tarsi unhanded, red- 

 brown, without trace of banding. Thorax slaty-grey in the 

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