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having been sent me by Captain Peyton, I. M.S., who, however, 

 does not agree that they belong to my species. I can only say 

 they are the same as the specimens described from the Sudan. 

 The male has not yet been found. 



Anopheles corethroides. n. sp. 



Palpi and proboscis in both sexes deep brown. Thorax pale 

 brown with a large median anterior, dark area, and a long lateral 

 dark area behind. Abdomen deep brown. Legs deep brown, 

 both unbanded. Wings very similar to those of A. bifurcatus. 



$ . Head brown with grey sheen, and with narrow upright 

 paler brown to dull ochreous, forked scales ; clypeus large, deep 

 brown with grey sheen ; antennae deep brown with pale 

 pubescence along the internodes ; proboscis deep brown; palpi 

 deep brown, not quite as long as the proboscis, apical segment 

 much shorter than the long penultimate segment. Thorax pale 

 greyish-brown with a broad dark brown median area extending 

 from the head to about half the length of the mesonotum, broadest 

 in front, and with a median line, and ending in two separate 

 rounded outlines ; just overlapping and passing back to the 

 scutellum, on each side is a pale brown line ; hairs brown, a 

 median line somewhat paler ; scutellum pale ochreous grey with 

 brown border-bristles ; metanotum deep brown ; pleurae brown. 

 Abdomen deep brown, paler areas on the last few segments, 

 bristles brown and pale brown. 



Legs brown with bronzy reflections, paler beneath, ungues 

 equal and simple. 



Wings with rather short fork-cells, the first sub-marginal 

 longer and narrower than the second posterior contracted 



Fig. 6. 

 Wing of AnopJieles corethroides. 9 • a. sp. 



apically ; its base nearer the base of the wing, its stem about two- 

 thirds the length of the cell ; stem of the second posterior as long 

 as the cell ; mid cross-vein about its own length in front of the 



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