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17. Anopheles annulipes. Walker. 
A. musivus. Skuse. 
(Ins. Saund. i. p. 433 (1850), annulipes , Walker; Proc. Linn. Soc. X. S. 
Wales, p. 1754 (1889), musivus , Sknse.) 
(Fig. 12, PI. III.) 
Thorax brown, with slaty reflections and with scattered 
white and creamy scales and a few pale hairs. Abdomen 
fuscous, with dull yellow scales; legs, including femora and tibiae, 
much banded; wings with many small black patches of scales on 
the veins. 
£ . Head black, with white scales in front and dusky scales 
behind ; eyes dark ; antennae dark brown, with bands of white 
scales and pale hairs; palpi slender and long, with white and 
brown bands ; proboscis slender, covered with small dark scales, 
slightly longer than the palpi. 
Thorax dark brown, almost black when denuded, with slaty 
reflections, indistinctly striped and with pale scales dotted over 
it; scutellum paler towards the edge; metanotum deep shiny 
black ; pleurae blackish. 
Abdomen dark brown, paler towards the edge, with yellow 
scales scattered over it, particularly at the pale edges, black 
ventrally. Femora and tibiae with numerous bands of black and 
yellowish-white scales, tarsi with pale bands both apical and basal. 
Wings with four black spots along the costa and with 
numerous small patches of dark scales on the veins. Halteres 
testaceous at the base, with a pale^stem and dark knob. 
Length .—5 mm. 
9 . Head black, with white scales on the vertex, black 
scales at the sides ; two long tufts of white hairs projecting in 
front ; antennae brown, with white 
pubescence; basal joint testaceous, 
first two joints with white scales. 
Proboscis brown; palpi with the last 
Wing of a. annulipes, wik. (9). three joints with a broad white apical 
ring, the first and second joints with 
white patches of scales above. Thorax brown, with slaty-grey 
reflections, and with scattered white and creamy scales ; scutellum 
yellowish at the sides, fuscous in the middle. Metanotum 
dusky. Abdomen fuscous, with dull yellow scales. Legs as in 
the £ . In the wings the first sub-marginal cell is considerably 
