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Genus Anopheles. 
longer and narrower than the second posterior cell, its base 
nearer the base of the wing than that of the latter ; the pos¬ 
terior cross-vein more than its length from the mid cross-vein. 
Length .—5 to 6 mm. 
Habitat .—Bupengary, Queensland (Bancroft) (8. and 29. 5. 
1899); Elizabeth Bay, near Sydney (Masters and Skuse); Mt. 
Kembla, Illawarra, N.S.W. (Hamilton). 
Time of appearance .—In Queensland in December (Bancroft), 
in N. S. -Wales in February (Skuse). 
Observations .—This is the larger of Skuse’s two species, 
A. musivus and A. Masteri. The two however seem very closely 
related, and I should almost feel inclined to treat them as 
varieties of one another. The specimens of Anopheles received 
from Queensland from Dr. Bancroft are undoubtedly mostly 
this species, although they differ in one or two small details, 
notably the presence of apical and basal tarsal banding, but the 
leg, wing, and other ornamentation is so similar that they could 
not otherwise be treated than under this species. 
As far as I can Judge from the type of Walker’s, A. annulipes 
(described in a short useless way in “ Insecta Saundersiana,” 
vol. i. p. 433, in 1850), it is the same as Skuse’s A. musivus; hence 
Skuse’s name must sink as a synonym. 
18. Anopheles Masteri. Skuse. 
(Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. Wales, p. 1757 (1889).) 
Like the former, but the sub-costal transverse vein is 
considerably beyond the middle of the auxiliary vein ; proboscis 
of the 9 brown at the base, pale at the apex, also smaller than 
the former species. 
9 . Head black, with white scales in front and dusky scales 
behind, and a tuft of white hairs also in front; eyes black ; 
antennae black, with white pubescence and white verticils; 
basal joint dark, with testaceous rim, first two joints with white 
scales; palpi banded with black and white scales, first joint 
dark scaled, second with a small white apical ring, third, fourth, 
and fifth nearly pure white, with narrow basal black rings, the 
second with a small patch of white scales in the middle on one 
side, the third with a larger patch nearer the base. Eyes black. 
Proboscis black basally, yellowish-brown towards the apical half, 
and with a dark apex. 
