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Economic importance. — The embryos of Filaria bancroftii can 

 develop in this species. 



Myzorhynchus paludis. Theobald (1900). 



Repts. Malarial Com. Roy. Soc. Eng., p. 75 (1900); Mono. Culicid. I., 

 p. 128 (1901), and III., p. 86 (1903); First Rept. Gord. Coll. Well. 

 Labs., p. 70 (1904). 



Additional localities. — This species has been taken in 

 abundance by Colonel Penton on the Jur and at Meshra during 

 the past year. 



It is evidently common in the Bahr El Ghazal ; Sambwa, 

 Bukedi ; Kisimbika, Uganda (Dr. Christy). 



Myzorhynchus mauritianus. Grandpre (1900), 

 Anopheles mauritianus. Grandpre (1900). 

 Anopheles paludis, var. similis. Theobald (1901). 

 Anopheles tenebrosus. Donitz (1902). 



" Les Moustiques," Planter's Gazette Press, Port Louis (1900) ; Mono. 

 Culicid. I., p. 129 (1901) var. similis, Theobald ; Beit. z. Kennt. der 

 Anop., p. 53 (1902) tenebrosus, Donitz; Handbk. Mosq., 2nd ed., p. 296 

 (1902) ; Eevis. Anop., p. 37 (1904), Giles. 



Additional localities. — Bujaju, Buddu and Ankole (Dr. 

 Christy) ; Natal (Dr. Power) ; Pretoria (C. B. Simpson) ; Cairo, 

 Egypt (F. Willcocks) in June ; British Central Africa (E. 

 Stoehr) ; Madagascar (M. Yentrillon). 



Myzorhynchus ziemani. Yon Grunberg (1902). 



Zool. Anziger. Bd. XXV. No. 677, July 21 (1902) 

 (= probably M. mauritianus, Grandpre). 



" Head with erect black scales, frons with a large white tuft ; palpi 

 densely black scaled, except the apical segment, which is white, third 

 segment with a basal, fourth with basal and apical pale rings. Thorax 

 deep brown, with scattered paler bristles ; on the fore half are median 

 and lateral black lines, the latter duller, but more defined ; a tuft of 

 bristles arises from the prothorax on each side and projects over the 

 occiput. Legs with clean brown femoro, the last two hind tarsals and 

 two-thirds of the third segment white, other tarsal joints minutely pale 

 ringed. 



Wings with dense dark scaled costa, with a single punctiform 

 spot near the middle limited to it, an ill-defined one near the apex 



