SYSTEMATIC DESCRIPTIONS 



OF THE 



ANOPHELES MOSQUITOES 



FOUND IN INDIA. 



GROUP I. 



Types : .4. barbirostris and ,4. nigerrimus. 



1. ANOPHELES BARBIROSTRIS (Van der Wulp). 



(Coloured Plate II. Plate V, Fig. 1. Plate X, Fig. 1.) 



References : Leyden Museum Notes VI, p. 48; Theobald, Mon. Colic., Vol. I, p. 146, 



Vol. Ill, p. 86 ; Db'nitz, Zeitschrift f. Hyg. XLIII, p. 227 ; Giles, Handbook Mosq., 



2nd Ed., p. 308, and Rev. of Anoph., p. 39. 



Synonym, Myzorhynchus barbirostris (Theobald). 



JHIS is a large mosquito very easily recognised by 

 its thick black unbanded palpi and dark wings. 



Palpi entirely black and covered with large, 

 broad, black scales. 



The proboscis is in like manner thickly covered 

 with dark scales. 



The head is for the most part covered with black upright 

 forked scales ; some white scales occur on the occiput, and there 

 is a prominent frontal tuft of white hairs. The dorsal and lateral 

 aspects of the thorax are covered with brown and black hairs and 

 hair-like scales. 



The abdomen is of a dark purple colour, and is covered 

 with many hairs. A few white scales are present on the ventral 

 surface of some of the segments, and on the venter of the last 

 segment there is a tuft of black scales. 



The wing veins are thickly covered with large broad spindle- 

 shaped scales. (PL X, Fig. 1.) 



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