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plus large en devant, plus étroite sur les deux cinquiémes. lytres d’ un jaune 
roux, flaves sur les cétés de l’ecusson; parfois unicolores, ordinairement marquées 
d’une tache scutellaire et chacune de cing points, noirs: un sur le calus, et deux 
paires obliques, d’avant en arriére, de dehors en dedans : les externes, vers les deux 
septiemes et deux tiers dela longueur. Epiméres des médi-et postpéctus, blanches.” 
This subspecies occurs in Kgypt, Syria, S.K. Russia, Siberia, and 
California. 
All the above names of vars. and abs. are given in the Huropean 
Catalogue [363 (1906)], (though some of ‘them, following Weise, are 
incorrectly given as synonyms), with the exception of boreolitoralis 
which of course is mentioned as conjluens Donis. 
Coccinella 14-punctata L. ab. magnopunctata Rybakow, 
Hor. Soc. Ent. Ross, 28, 289 (1889). 
“Var. magnopunctata m—Die Fliigeldecken mit 11 typischen Punkten; es 
treffen nur 4, 3, und5 ungemein gross auf, und dadurch ist leicht diese Varietat von 
allen bis jetzt bekannten zu unterscheiden.”” 
Ganglbauer gives the spots 4, 2, and 4 as being larger. 
Mosquitoes and Malaria. 
By the kind permission of the Trustees of the British Museum we 
are able to reproduce the following figures, which may still further aid 
in the identification of specimens, whether they are harmless Culicine 
gnats or the malaria-carrying Anophelines. 
ip 
5 A 
AAS Win Pol 
h 
Wine of THE Common House-Gnar or Mosquito, CULEX PIPIENS. x about 16. 
la. Portion of 2nd longitudinal vein, greatly enlarged, to show covering 
of scales. 
a. Median vein-scales. b. Lateral vein-scales. 
1b. Portion of hind-margin of wing, greatly enlarged, to show the fringe. 
a. Border-scales. b. Fringe-scales. 
