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bright greenish reflections. Occiput rather thickly clothed with 

 black and creamy white scales, the latter forming a pair of sub- 

 median patches, dark scales being specially abundant laterally. 

 Thorax brown, sparsely clothed with short, golden yelloiwish 



Fig. 8 Dorsal view of the larva of Anopheles 



hairs arranged in a rather plain median line with submedian 

 rows, a sublateral and a lateral row posteriorly, the hairs of the 

 two latter being longer, coarser and browner. Scutellum slaty 

 gi'ay. Halteres, basal portion, pale yellowish white; apical por- 

 tion, capitate, fuscous. Dorsal portion of abdomen plumbeus, 

 with irregular, fuscous markings and rather sparsely clod;hed 



Pleura and ventral portion of 



with long, golden yellow hairs. 



