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REPORT OF THE MALARIA EXPEDITION, 
In the examples collected on the West Coast, with the exception of the wings, the insect is a 
dark brownish gre)- rather than clay coloured. The palpi of the 9 have the apex broadly white, and 
there are, in addition, two narrow white bands on the articulations : further, their scaly covering is rougher 
than in J)i. fiinestus. The legs are dark brown, somewhat speckled with )-ellow, especially beneath, but 
show nothing of the nature of a band, except on the tarsi. In the fore legs, these have the first three 
joints with apical bands, which involve somewhat the contiguous bases of the next joints : in the middle 
legs the first three ; and in the hind, the first four joints have purely apical, narrow yellowish bands. The 
wings are lighter than in An. funrstus, but have a larger proportion of dark scales than in Jn. rossii, mi/ii, 
or, to judge from his figures, than Ficalbi's pseudopktus and superpktus. The i has the terminal joint of 
the palpi with a dense tuft of hairs, which are brownish yellow internally and blackish externally : the only 
other ornament being a very minute ring on the articulation between the second and third joints. 
Mr. Austen further makes the following note : — Although this species much resembles An. pictus, 
Loew (described from two females from the coast of Asia Minor, opposite the island of Rhodes) in having 
the front femora thickened towards the base, I think it is undoubtedly distinct. In the first place, it is 
much smaller (only 2} instead of 3 German lines). Then the two last joints of the palpi have an 
adornment of )ellowish white scales instead of being brown ; and the wings have four dark blotches on 
the costal margin in place of three, and all are separate, whereas in Loew's species the first and second 
patches are joined t-ogether on the costa itself. Lastly, the legs differ, the tarsi being banded in costalis. 
This species forms one of a group of closely allied species, including An. pictus, Loew, An. superpiclus, 
Grassi, An. rossii, mihi. An. vanus. Walker, and some others, which agree in having the wings with the costal 
margin adorned with alternate dark and light spots, while the wing as a whole is not dark tinted. When 
closely examined, however, the details of the adornment of the wings, as well as that of the palpi and other 
appendages, aflbrd sufficient points of constant diflMsrence to assure us that they are specifically distinct. 
The other (and new) species is much more darkly tinted, the white interruptions on the costa and 
other veins being so much smaller than the dark portions that it is fairer to call their wings black, with 
white spots rather than the reverse. In this respect it forms a link between the paler forms and the 
densely black-scaled wings of two species, also new, but as yet undescribed, which were brought back from 
India by Major Ross, and are now in the British Museum. 
Anopheles funestus, Sp. n. — Wings with the costa marked by interrupted darker and 
lighter colouration, the dark portions preponderating ; on the actual costa there are five interruptions, 
the two basal being connected b}- dark scales on the auxiliary vein ; there are also white areas over 
the trans\erse veins, the stem of the posterior fork-cell, and the bases of the 5th and 6th longitudinal 
veins. Abdomen unbanded, black. Tarsi uniformly black. 
9 General colouration black, with but little adornment. Head black, with a crest of scattered 
white scales ; eyes with a minute white margin ; proboscis black, a little paler at the apex ; antennae 
black, with scanty whitish verticils ; palpi black, very smooth, with the apex and two narrow bands 
on the articulations white. Thorax black, clothed with white scales over the greater part of the 
dorsum. Legs black, the only relief being a scarcely perceptible paler knee-ring. Wings ornamented as 
above described ; the anterior fork-cell long, parallel-sided, with a short stem ; the posterior, much shorter, 
wider, and wedge-shaped, with a longer stem ; supernumerary and middle transverse veins of fair 
length, in one line, the posterior, shorter and more than twice its length internal to it ; the scales of 
the internal fringe with minute white interruptions opposite the junctions of the longitudinal veins 
with the margin. Halteres with the knob black and the stem rather lighter. Abdomen black, glabrous, 
with very scattered white hairs. 
In the i there is no obvious banding of the palpi, but the apex of the last joint is grey, 
followed by a narrow black ring, and then by an even narrower pale ring, the rest of the appendage 
being of the same funereal tint as the rest of the body. The antenna? are black with dense black 
verticils, which, however, show a certain paler lustre in certain lights. The abdomen is black. The 
wings, though they resemble those of the 9 closely in ornamentation, differ somewhat in venation. 
