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4. Anopheles fuliginosus. Giles. 
(Hd.Bk. of Gnats, p. 160 (1900), Giles.) 
(Fig. 3, PI. I.) 
Thorax slaty-black, with darker longitudinal lines and with 
scattered flat spindle-shaped scales; legs dark, brownish-black, 
a pale band near the apex of the femora, a white apical band to 
the metatarsi and also the first two fore tarsi, the last three and 
apex of the first hind tarsi pure white; costa black, with four 
large and one or two small pale spots. 
$ . Head black, with white upright forked scales in front 
and on the occiput, black behind and at the sides, and with dark 
brown bristles; antennae brown, with pale pubescence, basal 
joint deep to testaceous-brown, a few white scales on the 
basal joints ; palpi clothed with long black scales with two white 
rings and an apical white joint; proboscis almost black, scaly. 
a, Scutellum ; b, scutellar scale from mid lobe. 
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Thorax slaty-black, with darker longitudinal lines, and with 
scattered, pale, spindle-shaped scales, a bunch of pale longer ones 
in front and a few dusky, projecting, spatulate ones at the sides 
in front, bristles black ; scutellum deep slaty-black, with creamy- 
white scales, especially forming two lateral tufts, small black 
bristles on the mid-lobe, long ones at the sides ; pleurae deep 
slaty-brown ; metanotum deep brown to black. 
Legs ochraceous, covered with dark scales and banded ; femora 
ochraceous below, dark scaled above, an incomplete ochraceous 
band near the apex, which is black, except the extreme tip, which 
is snowy white; tibiae black scaled with a white apical spot; 
metatarsi black, with a broad white, apical band; fore tarsi 
with apical white bands to the first two joints, last two black; in 
the mid tarsi the second joint has only a minute apical band ; in 
