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DESCRIPTIONS OF A NEW GENUS 
AND THREE NEW SPECIES OF 
ANOPHELINE MOSQUITOS 
BY 
R. NEWSTEAD, M.Sc., A.L.S., &c., 
AND 
H. F. CARTER 
(diploma, south eastern agricultural college, WYE) 
( Received for publication 15 December , 1910) 
DACTYLOMYIA, nov. gen. (Newstead and Carter) 
(Figures 1-3) 
Head .—Clothed with upright forked scales; palpi rather densely 
scaled. , 
Thorax (fig. 2).—With a distinct and very pronounced 
cylindrical-shaped tubercle or finger-like process projecting 
obliquely from the prothoracic region, mid-way between the dorsum 
and venter, and arising from the anterior margin. Thorax and 
abdomen clothed with hairs. 
Wings .—With dense lanceolate scales. Judging by the character 
and distribution of the scales this genus comes near Anopheles ; ut 
owing to the remarkable structures mentioned above it is easi y 
distinguishable from any other known genus of the Anophehnae. 
Dactylomyia ceylonica, nov. sp. (Newstead and Carter) 
Under pocket lens x 16. 
Head —Black in the centre, white in front; palpi brown, with 
three white bands and a few spots at the base, the apica 
being the narrowest; proboscis with the apical half ye ow, ex -P 
for a minute black band near the apex. 
Thorax and abdomen dark, covered with golden haiis. 
