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This s|jecies a good deal resembles An. fimestus, but lias an additional white 

 spot close to the base of the costa, and there are no sharply defined interruptions of 

 the internal wing-fringe, as in that species. Length, 3"5 — 4 mm. 



Hab. : Ellichpur, in the Berars, India. 



Anopheles Tueobaldi, sj). n. 



9 • — Wing jet black, with the costa interrupted by five obvious white spots, 

 the basal dots being nearly as large as the spots further out; in addition, there is 

 an apical spot, and the other long veins, though mainly black, are elaborately 

 marked with white lengths, and the fringe is interrupted at the junctions of all the 

 Jong veins and their branches. The last two hind tarsal joints, with the apices of 

 the other three, are pure white ; and the first two of the mid, and the first three of 

 the fore tarsals, are apically ■white-banded. The thorax and scutellum are sooty 

 grounded, with broad lines of white scales, two lateral, and two sub-median. 

 Abdomen sooty, nude, with brownish hairs. 



The head is black, with a bifid white frontal tuft, the nuchal crown white, and 

 the nape black-scaled. AntenuEe black, with whitish verticils. Proboscis sooty. 

 Palpi intensely black, with the whole terminal joint, and minute apical rings on the 

 next three joints, snowy white. Halteres with white stems and black knobs. Legs 

 brindled with white scales throughout, the white preponderating on the lower 

 sui-faces, with white knee sjiots and a large sub-apical white patch on the femora ; 

 the tibiae and first tarsal joints elaborately white-ringed, especially so on the mid 

 legs. Length, about 3 mm. 



This species was sent me first by Lieut. Glen Liston, I. M.S., from Ellichpur, in 

 the Berars, with a note pointing out its distinctness from any species mentioned in 

 the first edition of my " Handbook of Gnats and Mosquitos," and though, on first 

 sorting my collection, I was inclined to regai'd it as a dark variety of An. Jamesii, 

 its distinctness was at once detected by Mr. Theobald when we came to compare my 

 collection with the types of that species in the Museum. It differs from that 

 species in possessing the additional apical wing-spot, although the wing is generally 

 darker, the second long vein being entirely black, and in but two, instead of three, 

 of the last hind tarsals, being all white. 



Hah : Ellichpur, in the Indian Berars, and also taken in my 

 house at Shahjahanpur, N.W.P., on October 19th, 19U0. 



London : Jtily, 1901. 



Rare Diptera in Herefordshire. — During Whit week I was collecting on the 

 Herefordshire side of the Malvern Hills, chiefly near to West Malvern. Amongst 

 other things I obtained was a specimen of Brachypalpus bimaculatus, Mcq. This 

 species is only recorded by Mr. Verrall in his recent work from five localities, and I 

 believe only one or two specimens have been found"in each place, so that it remains 

 a very rare, species at present. One of the localities was Ledbury, in Herefordshire, 

 not more tAltc eight or ten miles away from where I took it this time. I also found 

 Cheilosiciho ]o\ata, Fall., not uncommon on wild garlic in a very limited ai-ea at 



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