510 GNATS OR MOSQUITOES 



wings, the males of which might possibly be mistaken for 

 Anophcletes by anyone unaware of the existence of these new 

 " dapple-winged" mosquitoes. 



To undertake the task of working out the whole of this new 

 material would involve great delay, but with the view of bringing 

 up to the latest possible date the record of the genus Anopheles, 

 descriptions of the following five additional species are subjoined, 

 together with the diagnosis of an additional new genus [Limatus) 

 closely allied to Trichoprosopon. Certain of the new Anopheletes 

 are the subject of some excellent work recently reported to the 

 Malaria Committee of the Eoyal Society by Drs. Christophers 

 and Low. The numbers preceding the names of the subjoined 

 species, indicate the position they should take in the synoptic 

 table of the genus. 



3a. ANOPHELES PULCHERRIMUS, Theob. " R.S., M.C." 



Wings with the costa white at the base and black at the 

 apex, with its intervening portion al)0ut equally divided between 

 three each of black and white patches involving the aux. and I, 

 in addition to two small black basal dots ; the other veins 

 mainly white-scaled, but there are black dots near the end of each 

 longitudinal branch, besides two additional black lengths on VI, 

 and some dots about the cross-veins ; internal fringe, mainly 

 white, with short black interruptions opposite each cell. Last 

 thi'ee hind tarsal joints, and all but the base of the second, 

 white ; upper three of the fore and mid tarsals, with rather broad, 

 pale apical bands. Femora and tibiae mainly white-scaled, more 

 or less elaborately spotted black. Thorax black-grounded, rather 

 densely clothed with large, fusiform white scales. Abdomen 

 shaggy, with densely placed, mixed black and white scales, 

 arranged so as to show narrow but distinct black basal bands 

 and to form strong lateral tufts to the hinder border of the 

 segments. 



$ . — Head black-<frounded, with its ciu'ved and forked scales alike 

 white, and a dense wliite frontal tuft ; palpi brown, the last joint white 

 except at the very base, and the next three joints witli narrow pale 

 apical bands ; antennte black, with scanty pale verticils, and clothed for 

 tlic most part of their length with white scales. Pleuras marbled brown 

 and white. Venter densely white-scaled. Length. — About 5 mm. 



Habitat.— Lahore, Punjab, Iiulia. 



Note. — This species is closely allied to tlie rhara;nsiii group, but its 

 long white hind feet separate it from its allies in the artificial classifica- 

 tion adopted for the genus. 



