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an excellent description of it, and a note that “ its larvae are to 
be found in the shallow pools and marshy ground on the granite 
soil near Hon" Kong.” 
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22. Anopheles Kochii. Donitz.* 
(Insecten Borse, 5 Jr. 18. 31 Jan. 1901, p. 36.) 
(Fig. 16, PI. IY.) 
Thorax fawn-coloured, with two large, eye-like, black spots, 
the front with longish white, the rest with creamy curved scales. 
Abdomen ashy-brown, with long dull-golden hairs and tufts of 
black scales beneath. Legs banded and marked wfith dark 
brown and yellow, some of the tarsi basally banded with brown. 
Costa creamy yellow, with four black spots, numerous small 
black spots over the wing field. 
9 . Head black, with a small tuft of white hairs, and white 
scales in front and blackish scales behind ; eyes black; antennae 
silky white with pale hairs, basal joint pale ferruginous ; proboscis 
yellow with dark scales at the base ; palpi yellow and black at the 
base, then a small ring of white and black scales, then a band 
of yellow, followed by two broad bands of white, with narrow 
bands of blackish-purple between ; the last joint pale yellowish. 
Thorax pale fawn-coloured to pale brown with frosty 
tomentum, two very distinct, deep brown, eye-like spots, bordered 
with paler brown and with a median bright pale brown line, 
the front with longish white scales, the dorsum with creamy 
scales ; scutellum pale at the sides, deep purplish-brown in the 
centre ; hairs golden-brown ; metanotum reddish-brown; pleurae 
pale brown, with large black spots. 
Abdomen cinereous brown, with long dull-golden hairs and 
tufts of black scales beneath. 
Wings with a yellowish tinge, the pale scaled areas very clear 
creamy yellow, the dark very deep sooty black ; costa creamy 
yellow with four distinct black spots, the wing field with numerous 
small black specks formed by little groups of black scales. 
Legs with the femora and tibiae banded and marked irregu- 
larly with dark brown and yellow scales ; posterior metatarsi with 
white broken bands of scales, anterior and middle metatarsi 
with yellow ones ; first tarsal joint banded basally and apically 
with creamy white, last three tarsi of the fore and hind legs all 
* This species was described as A. oceJlatus, but Dr. Ddnifz's description 
appears before mine, hence h : s name takes precedence. 
