Anopheles leucophyrus. 



GROUP II. 



Types : A. leucophyrus and A. punctulatus. 



3. ANOPHELES LEUCOPHYRCS (Donitz). 

 Figures facing page 83 and in text. Plate IX, Fig. 4. 



References: Donitz, Insect. Borse, January, 1901, p. 37 ; Theobald, Monog. Culicid., 

 Vol. HI, p. 51 ; Giles, Handbook Mosq., 2nd Ed., p. 312. 



Synonyms, Anopheles elegans (James). 

 Myzomyia, elegans (Theobald). 



The specimens which we now regard as a variety of A. leuco- 

 phyrus (Donitz) are described in Mr. Theobald's monograph as a 

 separate species under our manuscript name elegans. Mr. Theobald 

 places it in the genus Myzomyia, but is not sure whether it ought 

 not to be classed in the genus Nyssorhynchus, in which case unless 

 mosquitoes can produce varieties belonging to different genera it 

 cannot be a variety of leucophyrus as he says is possible and as 

 appears to us to be very probable. The following is our description 

 of this species : 



A dark mosquito, the wing veins of which are thickly clothed 

 with rather broad spindle-shaped black and white scales, which form 

 numerous small spots on the wing field, so that the wing has a 

 beaded or mottled appearance. Legs thickly mottled with black 

 and white scales. Palpi with four white bands. Abdomen with 

 long golden hairs but no scales. Thorax with long narrow whitish 

 scales and hairs. 



Palpi with four white rather narrow bands. A few white 

 scales are present on the bases of the palpi ; tips of the palpi white.* 



Proboscis brown with a lighter tip. 



Head with broad white forked scales in front and dark ones 

 behind, with a scanty tuft of long white hairs projecting forwards. 



Antennae brown with white hairs. 



Thorax chiefly, covered with white hairs, but also with a few 

 spindle-shaped creamy scales. Dark longitudinal lines and two 

 dark eye-like spots can be made out on the dorsum of the thorax. 



Halteres with the knobs covered with creamy white scales. 



* i. e., the outermost of the four white bands on each palp includes the tip. 

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