Anopheles tiirkhudi. 



so much stress, will readily show that these scales differ in shape 

 from those of most of the other species which he has placed in this 

 genus, and approximate much more closely to those of willmori 

 and pulcherrimus. The abdomen of stephensi is also much more 

 heavily scaled than that of other species classed in the genus 

 Nyssorhynchus, and it seems to us not improbable that Mr. Theobald 

 has confused some specimens of this species with specimens of 

 maculatus. This is certainly the case in the Royal Society's 

 Reports (sixth series, page 11) in which the descriptions of the 

 habits and of the larva of the so-called A. metaboles (= stephensi) 

 should be read as referring to maculatus and not to metaboles 

 at all. In the same way his figure and description of the larval 

 palmate hairs of stephensi (Vol. Ill, pages 47 and 85), are incorrect, 

 and should be read as referring to macuiatus. The terminal 

 filaments of the palmate hair leaflets of the larva of stephensi are 

 long and pointed as in Plate VI, Fig. 2. 



GROUP VII. 



Type : A. turkhudi. 

 18. ANOPHELES TURKHUDI (Listen). 

 (Coloured Plate XIV. Plate VIII, Fig. 2). 



References : Listen, Ind. Med. Gaz., December, 1901, p. 441 ; Theobald, Monog. 



Culic., Yol. Ill, p. 48. 



Synonym, Myzomyia Turkhudi (Theboald). 



A large brown mosquito with characteristic black tips to the 

 palpi. 



The tips of the palpi are black-scaled. There are, however, 

 three white bands on each palp. One circle is situated on the 

 middle of the terminal segment, while the other two are situated at 

 the anterior extremities of the second and third segments. 



The proboscis is covered with dark scales, but is yellow at its tip. 



The head is covered with brown and white scales. There is a 

 small frontal tuft of white hairs. 



The thorax is covered with long thin golden and white hair- 

 like scales. The scales are so arranged as to show a median and 

 two less distinct dark longitudinal markings. The lateral aspects 



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