822 GNATS OR MOSQUITOES — GHAPTEK XII 



middle with a deep brown line on each side. Abdomen shiny 

 black with yellowish hairs. 



I have not seen this species, the type of which has been already 

 returned to Dr. Rees' collection, and tlie following notes are extracted 

 from Mr. Theobald's original description. 



" 2 • — Head black, clothed with black upright forked scales behind, 

 and on the sides and over most of the occiput; a few grey and white 

 and creamy ones in front, also some curved white scales and a few 

 white hairs projecting forwards ; proboscis deep brown ; palpi deep 

 testaceous clothed with black scales, a white rmg towards the base 

 (apical portion denuded), longer than the proboscis ; antennae deep 

 brown, testaceous at the base, with dark hairs and grey pubescence. 



" Halteres with grey stem and large cup-shaped black knob. Length. 

 — 3 ram. 



" Habitat.- Pokfulam, Hong Kong (Rees). 



" Time of capture. — October. 



" Observations. — Described from a single $ in Dr. Rees' collection. 

 Very like A. funestiis, Rhoclesiensis and superpictus, but from funestus 

 it can be at once told by the disposition of the cross-veins and the darker 

 scaled wings, from Ehodesiensis by the ornamented wing fringe and 

 cross-veins, from superpictus by its darker hue and ornamented fringe. 



•• The fork-cells also differ from all three, the stalk of the second 

 posterior cell being relatively much longer. The mesothorax has also 

 numerous spots of a dusky hue. The straightness of the mid ungues 

 is very marked and strongly contrasted with the curved fore ungues. It 

 most nearly approaches A. funeslus from Africa, but is, I feel sure, a 

 distinct species." 



36. ANOPHELES PUNCTIPENNIS, Say. 



G. hyemalis. Fitch (Journ. Acad. Nat. Sc. Philadelphia, iii, (1823); lus. N. 

 Amer. ii, p. 39 (18G9), Say; Circ. 40, 2nd. se. p. 4, Dep. Agri. U.S.A. 

 1899), Coquillett). 



Plate X, fig. 6, Wing of Female. 



Wings with the costa black, interrupted by a single large 

 ferruginous spot a little outside the transverse veins, and involving 

 I. q,nd II. There is also a smaller apical spot, and some yellow 

 spots near the tips of the long veins, but otherwise the wing is 

 very dark, and has no interruptions of the fringe. Legs and tarsi 

 uniformly nearly black. Thorax and abdomen deep brown, nude, 

 but for some yellowish-brown hairs. Wings much longer than 

 abdomen. 



Head black, with a scanty whitish frontal tuft. Palpi and proboscis 

 dark yellowish-brown, unhanded but rather lighter at the tips. Halteres 

 brown. This is not likely to be confused with any other species than my 

 An. gigas, but may be distinguished by the base of the wing internal to 



