with Descriptions of New Species of Anopheles. 



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hairs and small scales. Legs deep brown speckled with white, joints 

 of the fore and hind tarsi with apical white spots. Wings with the 

 costa with four prominent black spots and two smaller basal ones, and 

 a few small black spots on the veins ; fringe dark, with pale areas. 



? . Head dark brown with frosty upright forked scales in front, 

 dark brown ones behind and at the sides ; antennae dark brown ; palpi 

 deep brown with three white bands, the two apical ones the widest, the 

 whole of the last joint is white ; proboscis black. Thorax deep brown 

 with narrow curved, flat, pale creamy scales, giving the thorax a 

 frosty appearance in the middle, and a median tuft of white hair-like 

 scales projecting over the top of the head ; the sides of the mesothorax 

 dark ; scutellum paler brown, with narrow curved pale scales and dark 

 brown border-bristles ; pleurae chestnut-brown, with patches of creamy- 

 scales. 



Abdomen deep brown, with dense dull golden hairs, and scattered' 

 small narrow curved pale scales. 



Legs dark brown, speckled wich pale creamy spots ; apices of the 

 fore tibiae, metatarsi, and first two tarsi yellow, last two all dark 

 brown ; in the mid legs the apical spots are scarcely apparent ; in the 

 hind more distinct, but the last joint is all dark brown ; ungues small,, 

 equal, and simple. 



Wings (Plate 5, fig. 1) with four large black costal spots, and two- 

 smaller ones near the base ; the two apical costal spots are continuous. 



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FlG. 1. Three variations in the wine of A. metaboles ? . 



on to the first long vein ; the third, which is the largest, has three typical 

 spots beneath it on the first long vein (fig. l,i); the fourth has one 

 beneath it not quite so long; there are also black spots on the veins as 

 follows : one on the upper branch of the first fork-cell, just below the 

 apical costal spot, another towards the base of the fork-cell, a small one 

 near its apex, and two small ones on the stem ; two small spots at the 

 base, and one at the apex of the third vein ; two on the upper and one 



