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arranged in lines ; pleura with three white lines. Legs dark, speckled with 

 w r hite ; apex of first and second tarsal joints of fore and mid legs with 

 broad white bands ; metatarsi of hind legs with apical bands, as well as 

 the next three tarsal joints, the last black. Costa jet black, with three 

 distinct white spots, one smaller at apex and two at base. This is a 

 dark species, widely distributed in Africa ; it has been recorded from 

 Egypt, Sudan, Northern Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Gold Coast, Angola, 

 Natal, Transvaal, Rhodesia, Nyasaland and British East Africa ; it also 

 occurs in Madagascar. 



Its larva is slender with a pigmented median stripe. Antenna without 

 a branched hair, terminal spines equal. Frontal hairs consisting of three 

 pairs, the external dendriform. Palmate hairs rudimentary on the tho- 

 rax, well developed on the first abdominal segment, large on the second 

 to seventh ; leaflets narrow and few in number. The larvae are found in 

 springs and marshes. 



Anopheles (Cellid) maculicosta, Becker. This species is considered 

 by Edwards to be a worn specimen of A. pharoensis. From Egypt. 



Anopheles (Neocellia) christyi, Newstead and Carter. Palpi brown 

 with two white apical bands, and a narrow creamy basal one. Thorax 

 almost black, with cream coloured scales. Abdomen very dark, with 

 white basal lateral areas to the middle segments. Legs brown : tarsi of 

 fore and hind legs dark with broad apical creamy bands, the last seg- 

 ment dark. Costa with five black spots, the second and third the 

 longest. Wing unusually broad. It is found in Uganda and British 

 East Africa. 



Anopheles (Nyssorhynchus) brunnipes, Theobald. Palpi black, with 

 two narrow white apical bands and broad white tip. Thorax brown, 

 with a dark median line, narrow submedian lines, and two dark spots. 

 Legs uniformly brown. Costa dark with three large creamy white 

 spots, and two smaller ones near base ; the first fork-cell is very long. 

 From Angola. 



Anopheles (Pyretophorus} aureosquamiger, Theobald. Palpi brown, 

 with four white bands, one apical and the others lower down. Thorax 

 slate grey with characteristic golden spindle-shaped scales. Abdomen 

 blackish brown. Legs brown with spots ; first two tarsi of fore leg with 

 broad white apical band, the last three of the hind leg entirely white. 

 From the Transvaal. 



Anopheles (Nyssorhynchus) rufipes, Gough. Palpi without spots, but 

 with two pale apical bands. Hind legs with narrow white bands, 

 apices of tibiae, metatarsi, and first tarsal joints, also third to fifth tarsal 



