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Examine the legs and note that they are almost uniformly 

 black, but that there are a very few white scales at the 

 joints, too scanty to form bands of white such as may be seen 

 on the legs of M . rossi. 



N. jamesi. 



This mosquito is usually of a dark grey or general blackish 

 colour, and is smaller than either M. rossi, JV. stephensi and M. 

 barbirostris. It has a peculiar habit when sitting upon the wall 

 of a tube or other object of gently waving its hind legs in the air. 

 A most noticeable point is that the end of these hind legs is pure 

 white in colour. 



Examine the palpi and note that there are three white 

 bands present, a broad one at the tips and two narrower ones 

 lower down. The two latter are not however usually so fine 

 as those present in M. rossi. 



Examine the legs and note (1) that they are covered with 

 very fine white speckles not quite so marked as those present 

 in N. stepliensi ; (2) there are distinct white bands at the 

 joints of the legs ; and (3) the last three joints of the hind 

 legs are quite white. 



M. culicifacies. 

 This mosquito is much smaller than the other species of anophe- 

 les to be found in Bombay, and is usually rather a darkish grey in 

 colour. It received its name from the fact that it does not assume 

 quite so peculiar an attitude as most anopheles mosquitoes, and in- 

 stead of raising its tail high in the air it keeps its body more nearly 

 parallel to the object upon which it is sitting, resembling culex 

 mosquitoes in this respect. 



Examine its palpi and note that they have three fairly 

 narrow white bands upon them, one at the tip and the others 

 at intervals lower down. 



Examine the legs and note that they are quite black or 

 blackish brown in colour except for a very few white scales 

 at the joints. There is no speckling of the legs as on 

 N. ste'phensi and N. jamesi. neither is there any banding of the 

 legs as in M. rossi. 





