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with hairs and narrow scales. Abdomen also covered with hairs, and 

 with a few scales on the last segment. Legs speckled, first tarsi of fore 

 and mid legs with a distal white band. Costa with seven dark spots, 

 the smallest at the base ; apex of wing with white scales. Egg, larva 

 and pupa unknown. This species has been found in the Central Provin- 

 ces, at Karwar, at Parel in the Bombay Presidency, in Delhi and in the 

 Andaman Islands. Its habits are unknown. It is possibly identical 

 with Anopheles (Cellid) punctulata, Donitz. 



Anopheles (Neomyzomyla] elegans, James. Palpi with four white 

 bands, the apical band the broadest. Thorax brown to grey, with dark 

 longitudinal lines and eye spots. Abdomen brown with dark hairs. 

 Legs brown with white speckling, a broad white band at the junction 

 of the tibiae and metatarsi of hind legs. Costa with four large black 

 spots, and sometimes two or three small basal ones. Egg unknown. 

 Larva with simple median and external frontal hairs ; palmate hairs 

 only present on the abdominal segments, leaflet with short stumpy 

 filament. This species is found in Karwar, and in the Andaman Islands, 

 where, according to Christophers, it breeds in rocky mountain streams 

 in the forest. 



Anopheles (Neostethopheles] aitkeni, James (in Theobald). Palpi dark 

 without any bands. Thorax dark brown. Abdomen black with long 

 hairs. Legs brown, without any bands or spots. Wing unspotted ; first 

 submarginal cell almost double the length of the second posterior cell. 

 Egg unknown. Larva with median frontal hair branched into fork-like 

 prongs ; external hairs simple and short. Palmate hairs on second to 

 seventh abdominal segments ; leaflets long with short spear-like filaments. 

 This species occurs at Karwar, and on the Frontier of Goa, in the Ben- 

 gal Duars, and in the Andaman Islands. Its habits are unknown. 



Anopheles (Neostethopheles) culiciformis, James and Listen. Palpi 

 brown, without bands. Thorax clothed for the most part with brown 

 hairs. Abdomen brown, covered with golden hairs. Legs long, un- 

 banded. Costa without any spots. Egg unknown. Larva with simple 

 and unbranched frontal hairs, the external ones short, the median long and 

 close together. A long hair with a swollen end and a tuft of fine hairs 

 just behind each antenna. Palmate hairs present on thorax and all 

 abdominal segments ; leaflet long and pointed, like a thorn, and without 

 any definite filament. A long unbranched hair on the side of the third 

 abdominal segment. This species is found at Karwar in the Bombay 

 Presidency. When resting on the wall its attitude is like that of Culex. 

 Its habits are unknown. 



