Genus Myzorhynchus. 87 



Fresh specimens have been received from Mr. Cornford from 

 the neighbourhood of Shaohyling, which show great variation in 

 size and in the relative widths of the four pale palpal bands, 

 especially the apical one. Other specimens have come from 

 Japan. 



Myzorhynchus pseudopictus. Grassi (1899). 

 Anopheles pseudopictus. Grassi (1899). 

 Anopheles pictus. Ficalbi (non Loew) (1896). 



Atti. Accad. Lincei. Rend. VIIL, 1, 102 (1899), Grassi ; Mono. Culicid. I., 

 p. 140 (1901), and III., p. 84 (1903), Theobald; Bull. Soc. Ent. Ital. 

 XXVIII., p. 232 (1896), Ficalbi (pictus) ; lllattan. Kozl. III., p. 30 

 (1904), Kertesz. 



Additional locality. — Hungary (Kertesz). 



Myzoehynchus minutus. Theobald (1903). 



Anopheles nigerrimus. James and Liston (non 



Giles.) 



Mono. Culicid. III., p. 91 (1903), Theobald; Mono. Anop. Ind., p. 79 

 (1900), James and Liston (referred to as nigerrimus)) Revis. Anop., 

 p. 38 (1904), Giles. 



Giles' nigerrimus was his 16 Anopheles sp. "b," Calcutta 

 (vide Handbk. Gnats, 1st Ed., p. 161). In his description he 

 describes the apex of the palpi as black. This agreed with his 

 original types and others seen. 



The species I described as minutus has the tip of the palpi 

 white, and is quite distinct. 



Additional locality. — Kuala Lumpur (Dr. Durham). 



Characters and habits of larvae. — The larval characters given 

 by James and Liston (p. 81) refer to minutus, not nigerrimus. 

 The median frontal hairs are unbranched, but may be bifurcate 

 at their extremities. The external frontal hairs are very much 

 branched, so that they form distinct " cocades " in front of the 

 whorl organs. 



The antennae possess a large branching hair on their inner 

 side as in the larva of barbirostris. Palmate hairs are borne by 

 the second to the fifth abdominal segments. 



The larvae are usually found in deep shady pools containing 

 grass and water weed, at some distance from habitations, and 

 the adults are seldom met with in houses (James and Liston). 



