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Original description.* —Brownish, with the costa and puncta on 
the wings brown, the legs with whitish joints. Length 2^ lines 
(German) ; £ and 9 antennae and palpi brown ; the latter in 
the 9 appears thicker than the proboscis ; thorax with a linear 
stripe in the middle and with deeper brown stripes on the sides ; 
wings with light brown scales along the costa, with two, as it 
appears, constant interruptions; on the mid held of the wing are 
several brown points or spots. 
Habitat. —China. 
8. Sub-species pseudopictus. Grassi. 
A. pictus. Ficalbi. 
(Venti Specie di Zanzare Ital. (1899), Ficalbi; Reale Accad. dei Lincei, 
Stud. d. u. Zool. sulla Malaria, p. 78 (1900), Grassi.) 
(Plate A.) 
Thorax bluish-grey with five longitudinal lines, with scattered 
hair-like golden scales; abdomen blackish-brown with golden 
hairs. Wings with two small, pale, costal spots on the dark 
costa and a pale spot on the hrst longitudinal nearer the base 
but not reaching the costa. Legs brown, apices of metatarsi and 
tarsi with a narrow pale ring. 
9 . Head with white scales in front, brown scales behind, 
and at the sides, a tuft of white ones projecting forwards; 
eyes black, narrowly bordered with white; antennae brown, 
basal joint and others for about half the length of the antenna 
with white scales, pubescence white, verticillate hairs pallid; 
palpi covered with brown and purplish-brown scales, and with 
three minute rings of white scales and the apex white-scaled ; 
there are also a few white scales along the whole length form¬ 
ing an indistinct line; proboscis dark brown with numerous 
fine hairs as well as scales. Thorax bluish-grey with a clear, 
dark median line the whole length of the mesonotum and with 
four other short paler lines, the mesonotum adorned' with 
scattered, hair-like golden scales in front, which on the posterior 
half of the mesonotum are arranged in lines ; scutellum the same 
colour and with similar scales ; metanotum bluish-grey in some, 
light-brown in others; pleurae mottled with grey and brown ; 
white scales at the bases of the legs. Abdomen blackish-brown 
with golden hairs, which are especially thick in the middle line of 
the abdomen. 
* Aussereurop. Zweifltig. Insek. p. 547, Wiedemann. 
