378 Mr. F. V. Theobald. On the Culicidce of India, 



Anoplieles Christophersi. n. sp. 



Thorax brown with narrow curved, long, pale golden scales, slightly 

 darker at the sides. Abdomen dark brown with golden hairs. Legs 

 dark brown, unbanded, and with no knee or other spots. Palpi brown 

 to black, with two broad apical white bands and a narrow one towards 

 the base. Wings with the costa black, with four small yellow spots, 

 the basal one rather indistinct, veins with rather long scales, the black 

 ones being most prominent ; fringe black, with four pale spots. 



$ . Head dark brown, with broad white upright forked scales in 

 front, black ones behind, and a dense tuft of white hairs projecting 

 forwards ; palpi dark brown, almost black, densely scaled, with two 

 broad apical bands and a narrow one on the apex of the basal third of 

 the palpi ; antennae bright brown ; proboscis deep brown with pale apex. 



Thorax brown, with long, narrow, curved, hair-like, golden scales 

 and brown bristles ; scutellum cinereous-brown with a double row of 

 border-bristles, the outer ones being large, the inner small ; metano- 

 tum deep brown to black. 



Abdomen almost black, with golden hairs. Legs completely dark 

 brown with bronzy reflections in the sun ; ungues equal and simple. 



Wings (Plate 5, fig. 3) with the costal border black, with four small 

 yellow spots, and the apex yellow, the basal spot very small ; the yellow 

 spots spread uniformly on to the first long vein except the third which 

 passes well under the black costal spot ; scales of the veins mostly 

 black ; a yellow patch at the base of the fork-cells and on most of the 

 third long vein, a long patch at the base and another towards the 

 middle of the fourth vein ; one large and one small patch on the 

 upper and one large one on the lower branch of the fifth vein, the 

 stem mostly pale ; most of the sixth dark, but there is a broad yellow 

 line towards the base ; fringe black, with yellow spots at the end of the 

 veins, except where the sixth joins the costal border ; first sub- 

 marginal cell considerably longer and narrower than the second 

 posterior cell, its base much the nearer to the base of the wing ; its stem 

 about half the length of the cell ; stem of the second posterior about 

 one and a half times the length of the cell ; supernumerary cross-vein 

 about half its own length in front of the mid cross-vein ; the mid 

 more than its own length in front of the posterior. Halteres with 

 pale testaceous stem and black knob. 



Length. 2 '5 mm. 



Habitat. Duars (Christophers). 



Observations. Described from two ? 's sent to the Royal Society. 



The species is very closely related to my A. Indica, but has more 

 than three pale fringe spots, and the cross- veins are not the same, 

 being more like A. superpictus, Grassi. The long black basal part of the 

 costa is also very characteristic, as also is the pale third long vein. 



