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are clubbed, have a number of short golden hairs internally and are 

 yellow in colour, clothed with thick black scales, through which the 

 yellow underground shows ; the last joint is truncated." Length, — 4 to 

 7*5 mm. $ , to S or 10 mm. $ . This species varies greatly in size, 

 the wings shown me in Italy by Professor Grassi being quite small, 

 while some Canadian specimens, in the British Museum, are huge gnats, 

 and to illustrate tins, I have superposed on the plate the drawing of 

 one of Grassi's specimens on the outline of a Canadian specimen. 



43. ANOPHELES ANNULIPALPIS, Arribalzaga ("L. A." p. 36). 



Wiogs unspotted, the costal vein and cell densely black- 

 scaled, the remaining veins brindled black and gold, so that the 

 wing looks confusedly banded ; tarsal joints white ringed, the 

 last joints wholly white ; abdomen dusky, with yellowish hairs ; 

 thorax with fawn-coloured scales, and three fuscous linear 

 markings. 



From original description : — 



" Palpi dusky, densely plumed in the <? , or black with silvery rings 

 in the $ ; the legs and tarsi dusky black with white rings ; the tibiae 

 with silvery spots {3'), or the legs black with silvery rings ($); head 

 cinereous, with white hairs towards the frons. Antennae black with 

 dusky hairs ( ? ) ; or fuscous with dense verticils {$) \ palpi black, 

 straight, with silvery rings ( J ), or dusky and densely villous, dilated and 

 divergent at the end {$); proboscis dusky black, with the apex white ; 

 eyes with white margins. Scutellum dusky ; metanotum dark red ; 

 pleurae dull testaceous ; coxae yellow ; femora black, pale yellow internally 

 and silver banded externally ; tibise black with white bands ( $ ), or dusky 

 with numerous silvery dots {3')\ tarsi nearly black, with silvery rings 

 and the last joint wholly white." Length. — 7 mm. 



Habitat. — The banks of the Parana in Argentina. A rare species. 



44. ANOPHELES STIGMATICUS, Skuse (" S. A. C* p. 1759^ 



Wings with light brown scales, unspotted, though they are a 

 little darker in the stigmatic region ; tarsi violet-brown, un- 

 handed. Thorax red-brown, darker in the ? , with tbree double 

 streaks, and dense latex-al fringes of golden hairs. Abdomen dark 

 brown, nude ? with golden hairs. 



Extract from original description : — 



"Antennae in the ^ about five-sixths the length of the palpi, ochre- 

 brown ; first joint nearly black ; in the J about four-fiftlis the length of 

 the palpi, dark brown with whitish pubescence and verticils brown ; 

 scapus, except distal half of second joint, red-brown ; head ochre-brown, 

 \\itli golden hairs ; proboscis scarcely longer than the palpi, brown. 



