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fii'st joint of which is a fourth longer than the tibia; halteres dark 

 Ijrown, the stem and base lif^liter than the knob. Wings longer than 

 the abdomen, with a slightly greyish tint ; veins and scales brown ; in 

 the middle of the fore part of the wing, under the costa, on the second 

 longitudinal vein, is a spot, and a little further out, above the small 

 transverse vein, a second spot, both formed by accumulations of scales ; 

 the upper basal cell is always longer than the lower. 



Habitat. — North America. 



Coquillet thinks this description applies to C. consobrinus, Desv.. 

 but Van der Wulp is surely a most unlikely man to be mistaken in a 

 well established dipterous genus. 



42. ANOPHELES MACULIPENNIS, Meigen [1818]. 



Plate X, fig. 10a, Wing of ? ; 10b, Palpi of <? ; 10c, the Tarsal claws, 



g and $ . 



An. quadrimaciilatus. Say. 

 An. clavigcr, Pabr., of which no type appears to have existed. 



C. bifiircatus, Meig. (1804) ? 



(Syst. Besch. Europ. Zwoi. Ins. i, 11, 2 (1318), Meigeu ; lus. Lapp, i, 808, 

 Zetterstedt; Hist. Nat. Dipt, i, 32, 2, Macquart ; Brit. Ent. 210, 2, 

 Curtis; Bull. Soc. Imp. Nat. Mosc. iii, 294, 2 (1845), Gimmenthal ; 

 Dipt. Scand. ix, 34G8, 3, Zetterstedt; Euto. Mag. i, 148, Hal i day ; Dipt. 

 Beitr. i, 4, 2, Low; Fauna Austr. ii, 2G5, Schiner; Dipt. Neer. p. 330, 

 Van der Wulp ; Ins. Brit, iii, p. 249, Walker ; Bull. d. Soc. Ent. 

 Italiaua, 189G, p. 228, et 1899, p. 90, Ficalbi ; Reale Accad. d. Lincei, 

 S. d. u. Zool. sulla Malaria, p. 77, Grassi.) 



Wings with four tufted spots ou the wing-field, the costa 

 being uniformly dark, except at the apex, where its colour fades 

 to form a fairly distinct spot ; tarsi unhanded, but with an apical 

 yellowish spot to the first joints. Thorax with four broad ferru- 

 ginous stripes formed of golden hairs, between which the darker 

 ground colour is left bare ; with a tuft of large golden scales on 

 the anterior border. Abdominal segments brown with yellowish 

 basal markings ; anterior femora not thickened at the base. 



" 5 . — Head with two patches of creamy scales divided by a central 

 line, the rest of the head with black scales, a small tuft of white hairs in 

 front, borders of the eyes white ; eyes deep purplish-black ; antennae 

 dark brown with pale bands and with ferruginous basal joint, pale 

 pube-iccnce and brown hairs; proboscis brown; palpi yellowish -brown, 

 with dense dark scales at the base, which is swollen, shorter than the 

 proboscis. Legs with pale coxfe ; femora and tibiae yellowish -brown 

 below, covered with dark brown scales above ; knee spot yellow, apex 

 of tlie tibiae paler ; tarsi slightly darker than the rest of the leg. <? . — 

 Antennre banded, plume hairs brown, last joint darker ; proboscis 

 black to dark brown ; palpi dark brown ; the last two joints, which 



