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together; the scales of these lines become irregularly spread out 
across the mesonotum in front of the scutellum ; there is also a 
line of white scales at the side of the thorax; scutellum deep 
brown with rather long flat scales; pleurae brown with white 
scales ; metanotum brown. 
Abdomen steely black, clothed rather densely with flat 
yellow scales above and white ones on the venter. 
Legs rather pale brown, banded; fore legs with a broad 
white apical band to the metatarsus and first two tarsi, the 
third tarsal black, the last white ; in the hind legs the femora 
have a pale imperfect ring before the apex, which is black ; apex 
of the tibiae somewhat enlarged and very dark ; metatarsus 
half as long again as the tibia, with a broad white apical band ; 
apex of first tarsal narrowly white-banded, remaining three tarsi 
pure white. 
Fig. 29. 
Anopheles Bigotii. n. sp. 
Wing of the ? . (X. 14.) 
Wings with three clear white spots on the dark costa ; the 
first long vein with a corresponding pale patch of scales under 
the apical spot, a longer patch under the median spot, and only 
a small trace near the third spot; the second long vein with a 
pale spot on its upper and a longer one on its lower branch ; 
third long vein mostly pale scaled; a dark patch at each end ; 
fourth with a pale patch on the stem and another at the base of 
the fork, and other pale scales on the branches ; fifth long vein 
with three white patches on the upper branch, the lower branch 
white with a black apical patch, the stem dark just at the base 
of the fork; sixth vein with a broad white patch in the middle ; 
fringe brown with a pale spot at the end of each vein; first sub¬ 
marginal cell considerably longer and narrower than the second 
posterior cell, its stem less than half the length of the cell ; 
stem of the second posterior longer than the cell, its base much 
