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SECTION A. 
Proboscis Formed for Piercing ; Metanotum Nude. 
Sub-Family ANOPHELINA. 
Genus 1.— ANOPHELES. Meigen. 
(Syst. Bescln*. (1818), i. 10, pi. x. figs. 5 and 6, Meig.; Dipt. N. d. Fr. 1G2 
(1825), Macq.; Hist. Nat. d. Dipt. i. 32 (1834), Macq.; Dipt. Exot. 
Nouv. ou peu connus, i. 29 (1838), Macq.; List, Brit. Mus. i. 9, Dipt. 
Wlk. (1848); Fn. Austr. ii. 624 (1864), Schiner ; Dipt. Neer. 329 
(1877), Van d. Wulp; Bull. Soc. Ent. Ital. p. 221 (1896), and Ibid. 
(1899), Ficalbi; Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. Wales, p. 1751 (1889), Skuse 
Dipt. Argent, p. 35 (1891), Arri.) 
Characters of the Genus .— Head with both flat and 
narrow curved scales, but mainly covered with large upright 
forked scales (Fig. 9, E); palpi long in both sexes, usually about 
the length of the proboscis, 4-jointed in the 9 > 3-jointed in 
the £, but constrictions at the base apparently make the 9 
5 or 6-jointed and the £ 4 or 5-jointed ; in the £ the last two 
joints are short, thick, and often olive-shaped. Antennae 14- 
jointed, pilose in the 9 > plumose in the ^ , and 15-jointed. 
Thorax with narrow curved or small spindle-shaped flat 
scales. Abdomen generally pilose, but sometimes with a few 
scales, and rarely with many (A. Pharoensis , mihi). Wings 
usually spotted, covered with small scales of normal form, 
spindle-shaped or inflated, with the first sub-marginal cell longer 
and narrower than the second posterior cell ; both the second 
and third long veins run past the cross-veins into the basal 
cells, a character which I have noticed very marked in all 
species examined ; in the £ the two fork-cells are short and 
their stems long, much as in Megarhinus. Legs long and thin, 
terminating in either simple or serrated ungues; hind metatarsi 
longer than the tibiae. 
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