Genus Anopheles. 
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Wings with dark scales predominating, with two pale costal 
spots, both on the apical half of the costa ; nearer the base is a pale 
spot which does not reach the costa ; the fork of the second long 
vein is black scaled at its base and its stem, each of the branches 
of the fork having a small pale patch of scales ; the fourth long- 
vein with the base of the fork densely black scaled, also the stem, 
which is most conspicuously black at the base ; the branches of 
the fifth with many black scales ; two distinct patches on the 
sixth. Fringe brown, pale at the end of the posterior branch of 
the fifth, like A. Sinensis, Wied., and A. paludis, mihi. Legs 
brown with joints paler, the tarsi being apically banded with a 
pale band, the last joint being black-scaled only. Ungues simple. 
Length .—6 mm. ; proboscis, 3*5 mm. 
£. Palpi black with a dense tuft of golden-brown hairs, 
with one or two patches of white scales at the swollen end and 
an indistinct line of them along one side ; antennae pale brown, 
with chestnut - brown plumes and bright 
brown bands at the verticils. Abdomen 
with an ochraceous tinge in places. The geni¬ 
talia (Fig. 31) has scales on the basal lobe, 
which is rather thick and broad. 
The ungues of the fore legs are unequal, 
the larger one being provided with two teeth, 
a large one in the middle and a smaller one 
Fig. 31. 
Sub-sp. A. pseudopictus 
(after Ficalbi). (X. 30.) 
Male genitalia. 
at the base, and also traces of a small third 
tooth at the base. 
Length .— 5 to 6 mm. 
Habitat. —Italy. 
Observations .—Three specimens of this sub-species were sent 
by Professor Grassi, who described it under the name of A. pseudo¬ 
pictus, n. sp. On comparing the specimens with Loew’s descrip¬ 
tion of A. pictus , I feel certain they are closely related, but Loew 
states that A. pictus has the fringe alternately black and white, 
which is certainly not the case in Grassi’s species. (Probably 
Loew’s species is another local sub-species of A. Sinensis.) 
Grassi’s species is very closely related to A. Sinensis, differing 
from it only in size and the length of the first sub-marginal cell, 
which extends back to the junction of the sub-costal and costal. 
It is probably, like A. annularis, merely a sub-species of A . 
Sinensis. I have separated this and the others as distinct sub¬ 
species from the positions of the cross-veins and the relative 
lengths of the fork-cells, &c. A. pseudopictus prefers the open 
