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metatarsi banded with white and dark scales-—five distinct bands, 
the base and apex white; hind metatarsus apically and basal]y 
white ; tarsi of the fore legs with broad white apical bands, 
except the last two joints, which are mostly dark-scaled ; in the 
hind legs the same, but the last two joints are apically white. 
Wings with the costa black-scaled, with three distinct pale 
spots and two smaller, often indistinct, basal ones; first longi¬ 
tudinal vein with five black areas beneath those of the costa, the 
greater part of the veins covered with dark scales of considerable 
length. Fringe at the tip of the wing yellow, and also at the 
tips of the veins after the anterior branch of the fourth long 
vein. Halteres with pale stems and dark knobs. (The pale 
fringe areas are not shown in the figure.) 
Length .—3 to 3 * 5 mm. 
Habitat .—Rio de Janeiro (Lutz) (4. 7. 1899). 
Observations .—Described from three specimens, all 9 ’ s > which 
can at once be told by the five white and dark bands on the fore 
and mid metatarsi and by the linear ornamentation of the 
thorax. 
Dr. Lutz, who sent this species, did not refer to it in any 
way, merely stating it is one of the three Anopheles found at Sao 
Paulo and Rio ; but in a recent letter he tells me it is not very 
common. 
% 25. Anopheles funestus. Giles. 
(Hd.Bk. of Mosq. p. 162 (1900).) 
(Fig. 13, PL IV.) 
Thorax dark brown at the sides, grey in the middle, with 
pale scales. Abdomen blackish-brown, with scattered pale hairs. 
Legs dark brown to black, with, now and then, narrow apical 
banding to metatarsi and tarsi. Wings with the black costa 
broken by very pale creamy spots, the wing-field mottled with 
black and pale creamy scales, and the fringe with yellow spots; 
mid cross-vein nearer the apex than the supernumerary and 
posterior cross-veins. 
9 . Head black, clothed with white upright forked scales in 
front, black ones at the sides and behind, with a bunch of long- 
white scales projecting in front between the eyes; eyes black, 
with a narrow white margin; palpi black, with a white apex 
and two white rings, the one nearest the apex sometimes 
involving both sides of the last two joints; proboscis black, tes- 
