

Genus Myzorhynchus. 83 



breeding grounds. Malarial parasites can develop in this species, 

 but do so rarely in nature. 



Myzorhynchus pseudobarbirostris. Ludlow (1902). 



Journ. N. Y. Ent. Soc. X., p. 129, Sept. (1902) ; Class. Geo. Dist. and Sea 

 Flight, Mosq. Phil. Isls., p. 11 (1903), Ludlow; Revis. Anop., p. 39 

 (1904), Giles. 



Allied to ba?birostris, Van der Wulp, but " round-ended " 

 scales more numerous and wider, spread over wings, and the legs- 

 with speckled femora and tibiae, and all segments of legs white- 

 tipped except last tarsal ; palpi densely black-scaled, many of the 

 scales with ochraceous tips. 



Miss Ludlow's original description is appended : — 



" ? . Head very dark brown with some pale scales on the top, spreading 

 in front towards the sides and partly around the eyes, tuft in front white 

 with a few dark hairs, otherwise covered with rather broad, not deeply 

 forked scales with fimbriated tops, the tips grey ; narrow median space 

 bare. Antennae a lighter brown, minute white apical bands on the 

 segments, first segment brown ; verticels brown, pubescence white. Palpi 

 very heavily scaled with dark brown (almost black) scales, many of which 

 are ochraceous tipped, so that the effect is 'rusty,' segments obscure, 

 but can be seen by breaks in the scales — as long as the proboscis ; last 

 segment with brown hairs. Proboscis also heavily dark scaled, same 

 ochraceous tipped, tip a little lighter but still brown. Eyes dark brown 

 with a narrow white rim part of the way round. Thorax dark brown 

 with grey reflections and narrow-curved (almost hair-like) golden scales,, 

 arranged in faint (i.e. indefinite) lines, which in some lights seem to 

 converge so as to form a 6 V ' from the cephalic edge, the whole length 

 of the thorax, the point caudal ; pleurae brown with white markings ; 

 scutellum brown at the centre, paler lateral, with slender golden curved 

 scales (such as are on the thorax) and golden bristles ; metanotum brown. 



Abdomen dark brown, slight greyish reflections, golden hairs ; on the 

 ventral side are a few scattered white scales, and near the caudal end a 

 bunch of rather long brown scales. 



Legs, coxae, and trochanters all dark brown, white tipped ; femora- 

 and tibiae all dark brown well sprinkled with white scales, the rest of the 

 legs a little lighter brown and in some lights giving almost ' fawn-coloured ' 

 reflections; all the segments of the legs and feet are white wipped 

 (? tipped), except the last tarsal segments, and on the mid legs they are 

 a little lighter, giving almost ' clay-coloured ' reflections ; ungues simple 

 and brown. 



Wings dark with two small yellow spots on costa, one at the apex of 

 the wing and extending on the apices of the first long vein and anterior 

 fork of the second long vein, with light spots on the fringe at apices of 



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