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NEW CULICID^ FEOM THE WEST COAST 

 OF AFRICA. 



By Feed. V. Theobald, M.A. 



The new Culicidse described here were sent me by Mr. Austen, 

 of the British Museum, and were collected at Bihe, Angola, 

 Portuguese West Africa, by Dr. Creighton Wellman in 1904, 

 and at Sierra Leone by Major Smith, D.S.O., R.A.M.C. 



The new Danielsia and Mdimorphus are very marked and 

 beautiful species. The Pyretopliorus was pointed out as being 

 distinct from P. costalis, Loew, by Mr. Austen, after whom I 

 have named the species. The Anopheles closely resembles A. 

 nigripes, Staeger, but is clearly distinct. 



The types are deposited in the National Collection. The 

 strange genus Heptaphlebomyia is more fully described than in 

 my Monograph, as fresh material was included in the collection 

 from Angola. 



Genus Anopheles, Meigen. 



(Syst. Beschr. 1818, Meigen ; Mono. Culicid. iii. p. 17, 

 Theobald.) 



Anopheles smithii, n. sp. 



Head black, with a patch of frosty grey scales in front; proboscis 

 black ; palpi black, with three narrow pale bands, apex black. An- 

 tennae with outstanding scales as well as hairs on the second segment, 

 giving a tufted appearance. Thorax frosty grey in the middle, deep 

 brown at the sides, and with a median dark line and brown hair-like 

 scales. Abdomen black, with dull golden hairs. Legs black, un- 

 handed. Wings unspotted, the veins clothed with dense dark brown 

 scales. 



$ . Head black, with a patch of frosty grey upright forked scales 

 in front, dense black upright forked scales behind, over which shows a 

 prominent tuft of large grey narrow-curved scales projecting forwards 

 from the thorax ; several thick black bristles project forwards between 

 the eyes ; proboscis and clypeus black, the former thin ; palpi as long 

 as the proboscis, thin, scaly, black, with three pale bands, the apical 

 segment black. Antenna black, the second segment with a small 

 dense tuft of hairs on the inner side as well as the normal longer black 

 ones. Thorax frosty grey in the middle, showing a median dark line 

 and a pale yellowish brown one on each side of it in front, more or less 

 tessellated behind, and with many small black specks, the sides deep 

 brown, the pale frosty area contracted in front, thus widening the dark 

 brown lateral areas ; hairs or hair-like scales of thorax brown ; scu- 

 tellum and metanotum deep brown, posterior border-bristles of the 

 former black. Abdomen black, with deep brown hairs. Legs long 

 and thin, deep brown ; ungues equal and simple, thin, rather long. 

 Wings clothed with dense rather stumpy lanceolate scales, uniformly 

 dark brown ; the first submarginal cell considerably longer and nar- 

 rower than the second posterior cell, its base nearer the base of the 



