INDIAN SPECIES OF ANOPHELES 229 



Anopheles (Patagiamyia} lindesayi, Giles. Palpi black, without any 

 bands. Thorax black with a large dorsal rectangular whitish area. 

 Abdomen black with long hairs. Legs black with a long white band at 

 the middle third of the hind femora. Costa almost entirely dark, with a 

 characteristic yellow spot at the apex. Egg unknown. Larva with 

 simple and unbranched frontal hairs ; antenna with a small branched 

 hair. Palmate hairs absent on thorax, well developed on second to 

 seventh abdominal segments ; leaflet long with a moderately pointed 

 filament. This is chiefly a hill species and is found in Simla, Murree, 

 and other hill stations in India. 



Anopheles (Patagiamyia) gigas, Giles. According to Giles, James and 

 Liston, the palpi are brown and unbanded. Thorax with a dark rim of 

 chocolate colour and a large rectangular area on dorsum. Abdomen broad 

 with golden hairs. Legs light brown, with pale bands at the tarsal 

 joints. Costa with four black spots, two small basal and two long 

 median and apical ones. Egg and larva unknown. This species was 

 first recorded from Coonoor, Nilghiri Hills, South India ; it has been 

 taken by one of the authors at Kodaikanal, Pulney Hills, South India, 

 while feeding on a horse during the day. It is a wild mosquito, and was 

 never seen in a house in Kodaikanal. 



Anopheles (Patagiamyia) simlensis, James. Closely allied to gigas, and 

 only differs in having banded palpi. According to James and Liston the 

 larva of simlensis has simple and unbranched frontal hairs ; a small 

 branched hair on the antenna ; palmate hairs are present on the third to 

 the seventh abdominal segments, and the leaflet is short with a stumpy 

 filament. 



Anopheles (Myzomyia) culicifacies, Giles. (Plate XXXVIII, fig. 1.) 

 Palpi with three small yellow bands of equal size, the tip forming one of 

 the bands. Thorax yellowish brown with a dark median line. Abdo- 

 men brown with yellowish brown hairs. Legs dark brown, with small 

 yellowish spots at the joints. Costa with five black spots, the basal spot 

 being the smallest. Egg (Plate XXXIV, fig. 10) with a narrow rim on 

 the upper surface, the floats not extending up to it. Larva with simple 

 unbranched frontal hairs ; palmate hairs present on the thorax and 

 all the abdominal segments ; each leaflet serrated and with a moderately 

 fine filament. This species is widely distributed in India, and is 

 found in the Punjab throughout the hot weather, but to a much less 

 extent in the colder months ; it is common in many parts of Bengal, 

 the United Provinces, Bombay, the Central Provinces, Berars, Burma 

 and the Madras Presidency, especially in Ennur and the Jeypore Agency 



