with Descriptions of New Species of AnopJwles. 377 



others Dr. Christophers sends me have the T-spot badly developed ; 

 others have the first and second large spots united on the costa. 



In any batch of A. Rossii caught at Calcutta, it seems from the joint 

 letter of Captain James, I. M.S., and Drs. Stephens and Christophers, 

 several variations from the type may be found. 



It appears this common Asiatic species does not take part in the 

 distribution of malaria. 



Anopheles Indicus. (Theobald.) 



= A. culicifacies. Giles. ( ? .) 



'Mono. Culicid.,' 1, p. 183, 1901. 



Thorax pale ochraceous-brown, with pale golden hair-like curved 

 scales and black bristles ; palpi dark brown, with yellowish-white apex 

 and two other pale rings. Abdomen dark shiny-brown, densely 

 clothed with golden-brown hairs ; venter pale ochraceous. Legs dark 

 brown, almost black, a small yellow spot at the apex of the tibiaj and 

 femora. Wings with costal border marked with four prominent black 

 spots and a small basal one; wing-fringe dusky, with three yellow 

 patches, namely, at the ends of the lower branch of the fourth and the 

 two branches of the fifth. 



Length. 3 to 3'5 mm. Habitat. Madras. 



Observations. I have seen only a single specimen of this insect. It 

 is very similar to Grassi's A. superpictus, but much smaller, and has no 

 tarsal banding.* 



Anopheles Listoni. (Giles.) 



= A. culicifacies. ? . (Giles.)* 

 'Ento. Mo. Mag.,' p. 197, 1901. 



Thorax dark brown at the sides, paler in the middle ; abdomen deep 

 brown, with scattered pale hairs. Legs dark brown, unbanded. Wings 

 with the costa black, including the actual base, with four small distinct 

 yellow spots, the largest light area being that quite at the base ; fringe 

 dark, except at the apex, and indistinct paler patches opposite one 

 or two of the longitudinal junctions. Palpi of V black, with two 

 narrow rings and a minute white tip ; in the <$ , black with two whitish 

 bands. (Fresh specimens show three fringe spots.) 



Length. 3'5 to 4 mm. 



Habitat. Ellichpur, Behars ; Etawah, N.W.P. 



Observations. This and my A. Christophersi are very closely related, 

 "but can easily be separated by the difference in the banding of the palpi. 



* Having recently examined a fresh series of culicifacies, I am convinced my 

 A. Indicus is the same. This name must therefore sink as a synonym, as Col. Giles 

 described Listoni and culicifacie* a month before my Indicut. Giles's $ culici- 

 fades is the same as Listoni, so that both names sink under culicifacies, as the 

 latter was described first. 



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