Anopheles leucophyrus. 



Abdomen black, thickly covered with golden hairs but with- 

 out scales. A very marked golden apical tuft of hairs. 



Wing veins covered with rather broad scales forming numerous 

 black and white spots arranged as follows : The costa shows four 

 large black-scaled areas and three (sometimes only two) small ones ; 

 the first longitudinal vein shows seven dark-scaled areas of different 

 sizes arranged as shown in the diagram ; the main stem of the 

 second longitudinal vein has three black-scaled areas, the anterior 

 branch has three spots and the posterior three ; the third longitudinal 

 vein has seven (sometimes only six) small black areas ; the fourth 

 longitudinal vein has three large black areas on its main stem and 

 generally three on each of its branches ; the fifth longitudinal 

 vein has four dark spots on its main stem and one at its bifur- 

 cation, its anterior branch has five dark areas and its posterior 

 four ; the sixth longitudinal vein has four or five (sometimes six) 

 dark areas. 



As will be seen from the accompanying drawing of the wing of 

 another specimen, the number of dark and light-scaled areas on 

 some of the veins is not constant, and two or three of the small 

 spots may sometimes be joined together so as to form one long dark- 

 scaled area. 



The wing fringe is interrupted by a light-scaled area at the 

 termination of each of the longitudinal veins. 



The legs are speckled with white scales on a brown ground ; 

 in the fore legs the fifth tarsal segment has a few white scales at its 

 tip, and there are apical white scales which extend over the joint so 

 as to form a band to each of the other tarsal segments. The first 

 tarsal segment is speckled with white scales in addition to the 

 apical banding, and the tibia and femur are also speckled. The 



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