Anopheles pule her rimus. 



GKOUP III. 



Types : A. pulcherrimus and A. willmori. 



5. ANOPHELES PULCHEBRIMUS. 

 Coloured Plate IV, Plate IX, Fig. 6. 



References .-Theobald, Proc. Roy. Soc., Vol. LXIX, 1902, p. 369, and Monog. Culicid., 

 Vol. Ill, p. 107. Synonym, Cellia Pulcherrima (Theobald). 



This species may be taken as the type of a group of species 

 characterised especially by the fact that the abdomen is thickly 

 scaled, the scales forming distinct tufts at the sides of each segment. 



The palpi are equal in length to the proboscis and are densely- 

 scaled. The tips of the palpi are white and each has four white 

 bands. The terminal band includes the tip and is separated from 

 the next by only a few black scales : the remaining white bands are 

 at the joints between the third and fourth, and the second and third 

 segments of the palpi. In addition to the bands the palpi are 

 speckled with many white and brown scales. 



The proboscis, which is also covered with scales, especially 

 near its base, is brown with a white tip. 



The head is densely covered with dark brown and white scales, 

 and a well marked frontal tuft of white hairs projects forwards ; the 

 antennae are brown with white bands and white hairs at each joint. 



The thorax is covered with broad silvery-white scales inserted 

 on a dark brown ground and interspersed with white hairs ; the 

 pleurae are also densely scaled. 



The scutellum is tri-lobed and more or less covered with silvery 

 scales ; the metanotum is dark brown. 



The halteres are yellowish brown and their lobes carry a 

 number of small silvery scales. 



The abdomen is thickly covered with silvery white scales and 

 golden hairs ; the scales are flat and broad. Projecting laterally 

 from the apex of each segment is a tuft of dark brown scales. 



The wing veins are covered with large broad scales of brown 

 and white colour, the latter predominating ; the costa shows four 

 prominent dark-scaled areas and two smaller dark spots ; the first 

 longitudinal vein has dark-scaled areas corresponding with the four 

 large dark areas on the costa, but the second dark area is divided 



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