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a very fine median black line, in front the patch has a rather ferruginous 

 tint ; pleura; black with a few white scaled spots in front. Legs generally 

 brown, darker on the tarsi, which are not banded; the hind femur whitish, 

 with a broad black band at its apex, and a smaller one about its mid 

 length, the other femora black and white scaled, the former prepon- 

 derating at their tips, the anterior femora slightly thickened near the base. 

 This species can hardly be confused with any other as it is the only one 

 which has a pale apical wing spot combined with an unspotted costa. 

 Length of the body 450 inm. ; of the wing 3*30 mm. 



Habitat. — Sent me by Captain Victor Lindesay, I. M.S., from Bakloh, 

 m the Punjab. I also took a single specimen last July in Naini Tal, 

 both places being situated at over 6,000 feet elevation in the Himalayas, 

 but it appears to be a rare species, as I came across no other example, 

 and could nowhere find the larvae, in spite of a most careful search. 



39. ANOPHELES ATRATIPES, Skuse (" S. A. C." p. 1,755). 



Plate X, fig. 9, Wing of ? . 



Wing spotted on the wing field, but with the costa uniformly 

 black ; the internal fringe is deep ferruginous at the apex, but 

 elsewhere black, as also are all the long veins with the exception 

 of a few white spots on some of the inner ones. There are, how- 

 ever, six distinct spots on the wing field produced by dense tufts 

 of long scales. Legs and tarsi uniformly intense sooty black, 

 Thoi'ax of a red-brown ground colour with a nude, black median 

 line and lateral lines where the brown ground colour is free 

 from the yellowish-white scales and bloom that cover the rest 

 of the mesonotum. 



Head black, with white forked scales and a scanty frontal tuft. The 

 clypeus is thjree-lobed and in front of it the proboscis springs from an 

 exceptionally distinct basal dilatation which is longitudinally striped, 

 alternately intense black and snowy. The palpi and proboscis are abso- 

 lutely sooty, just a little paler at their tips. There can be no diflficulty 

 in recognising this species by the six peculiar wing tufts. The two 

 additional ones to those of the maculipennis being in this species placed 

 on the stem of V. and its bifurcation, the rest of the stem of this vein 

 being white. ? . — Length of antennse 1'77 mm. ; expanse of wings 

 4-18 X 0-84 mm. ; size of body 4-18 x 0-76 mm. 



Habitat. — Berowra, N.S.W. January, and since sent in considerable 

 numbers from Queensland by Dr. Bancroft. 



40. ANOPHELES CRUCIANS, Wied. 



Wings with white spots here and there on the brown veins, 

 uniform along the costa ; tarsi unhanded, dusky brown ; 

 abdomen uniformly brown, witli grey hairs. Thorax red-brown 

 with linear markings. 



