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Genus Anopheles. 
scattered long golden hair-like scales ; pleurae brown and ashy 
grey, with a few white scales ; scutellum deep purplish-brown in 
the middle, paler at the sides, with very pale golden curved 
scales and long dark brown bristles ; metanotum deep brown. 
Fig. 33. 
Head of Anopheles barbirostris on the left, of A. annularis on the right. 
(From photographs.) (X. 9.) 
Abdomen much as in A. Sinensis. Legs testaceous, densely 
covered with dark brown scales, apex of the tibiae with a yellow 
band, also the tarsal joints, except the last; ungues equal and 
simple. 
Wings (Fig. 34) densely covered with dark scales and a few 
pale ones ; costa black-scaled, a small pale yellow apical spot and 
another still smaller and paler where the sub-costal joins the costa ; 
the former just includes the scales at the tip of the first long 
vein and the tip of the upper branch of the second long vein ; 
the second spot only on the costal vein; first sub-marginal cell 
longer and narrower than the second posterior cell, its base just 
a little nearer the apex of the wing, its stem equal to about 
two-thirds of its length, shorter than the stem of the second 
posterior cell, which is a little longer than the cell; base of the 
first fork-cell not near the second costal spot; mid cross-vein a 
short distance from the supernumerary; posterior cross-vein 
more than its own length distant from the mid; fringe black, 
with a pale spot at the tip of the third long vein and slightly 
paler where the lower branch of the fifth joins the edge ; scales 
of the wing more robust than in A. Sinensis, those of the upper 
branch of the fifth being comparatively short and broad with an 
acuminate tip. Halteres jet black, slightly pale at the base. 
Length .—5 mm. 
Habitat .—Selangor (Wray); Upper Burma (Watson) (4. 94); 
Old Calabar (Annett). 
Time of capture .-—August in Upper Burma (Watson); April 
in Old Calabar (Annett). 
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