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ANOPHELES.— Meigen (1818). 
Thorax and abdomen clothed with hair-like curved scales, 
practically hairs ; the palpi of the female thin, not densely 
scaled, generally unhanded. Wing veins covered with long 
lanceolate scales, which may or may not form spots, but which, 
if present, are never so numerous as in other genera. They are 
mostly large species, and either belong to temperate climates, 
or are hill species when occurring in tropical climates. 
Anopheles corethroides. — Theobald (1907). 
2 ■ Head brown, with grey sheen, and with narrow upright 
paler brown to dull ochreous, forked scales ; clypeus large, 
deep brown, with grey sheen ; antenna? 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 api- 
cally ; 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 
supernumerary and posterior cross-veins. Halteres with dark 
knobs. Length, 3 to 4 mm. 
£ . Palpi deep brown swollen apically with scanty hairs, 
slightly longer than €he proboscis ; fore ungues unequal, the 
larger uniserrate ; mid and hind equal and simple, jf |P |' J* |v 
First sub-marginal cell longer and narrower than the second 
posterior cell, its stem as long as the cell, stem of the second 
posterior longer than the cell ; mid cross-vein rather more than 
its own length in front of the supernumerary and posterior. 
Length, 3 mm. n ...» m .- §g| ... 
This is a small mosquito, and extremely uncommon ; I 
bred it out from a mixed lot of larvae obtained from a small well 
or water hole, four feet square, made in a gully in the Burpengary 
scrub, near the railway station ; this hole was dug out with a 
spade until water soaked naturally into it ; several rare mosquitoes 
were obtained from this waterhole. After some months, pre- 
dacious insects such as Dragon-fly larvae, Notonecta, Belostoma, 
