Genus Anopheles. 
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with, white rinses at the tibio-tarsal and tarsal articulations 
affecting mainly the apices of the proximal joints. Wings light 
coloured and generally clear, spotted with yellowish-white and 
brownish-black, or black ; the anterior margin black, completely 
interrupted by three light spots, so that the black portion is 
divided into four parts or elongated spots of not very unequal 
length ; in addition to those an apical black spot and several of 
the longitudinal veins are black-scaled for various portions of 
their lengths, much as in A. pseudopictus, but not so densely. 
Abdomen very hairy, but without scales on either its dorsal 
or ventral surface ; segments 
z 
z 
I 
x 
a. 
Z 
I 
3 , 
£ 
z 
z 
generally brownish - yellow, 
with darker hinder borders. 
Length, 7-8 mm.”—(Ficalbi, 
‘ Venti Specie di Zanzare 
Ttaliane.’ Florence, 1899.) 
Grassi states that his A. 
superpictus is found in houses, 
sheds, &c., like A. matulipennis , 
and that it is difficult to catch 
except when blood-sucking. 
Captain Cornwall has sent 
me a 9 from Madras, answer¬ 
ing in some respects to Grassi’s 
A. superpictus, but the tarsi are 
not banded, and the fringe has 
three yellow patches. I think 
it is a distinct species. At 
first sight A. funestus, Giles, 
would be taken for this species, 
but funestus has the super¬ 
numerary and mid cross-veins as in Fig. 36, 1, whilst they are 
different in superpictus , and the 3 °£ funestus has the large 
ungues of the fore legs uni- not bi-serrated. 
A number of Anopheles sent from Central Africa and the 
West Coast answer in all respects to the mounted A. superpictus 
sent us by Grassi, and I feel confident are his species. 
Both superpictus and funestus occur side by side in Mashona- 
land, and the only way to detect them is by the different position 
of the cross-veins and the f ungues. 
■fr 
. 
6 . 
Fig. 36. 
1. Cross-veins of A. funestus; 2. of A. Rho- 
desiensis; 3. of A. Indiensis; 4. of A. 
superpictus; 5. of A. Rossii; 6. of A. cos- 
tails (all $’s). 
