Genus Anopheles. _l<53 
26. Anopheles Indica. n. sp. 
0 . Head black, with creamy-white and black upright 
forked scales, the pale ones in the middle ; clypeus brown, basal 
joint of antennae pale ochraceous, remainder brown, with pale 
pubescence; palpi dark brown, with apex yellowish-white, and 
with two apical pale rings to the third and fourth joints ; 
proboscis brown, testaceous at the tip. 
Thorax pale ochraceous-brown, with pale golden hair-like 
curved scales and black bristles; scutellum very pale, almost 
grey, with a single row of long dark bristles and an inner row 
of short golden ones, and pale scales; metanotum pale brown ; 
pleurae pale ochraceous-brown. 
Abdomen dark shiny-brown, some of the segments with 
ochraceous reflections in the centre, densely clothed with golden 
brown hairs ; venter pale ochraceous. 
Legs very dark brown to almost black, a small yellow spot 
at the apex of the tibiae and the femora, coxae ochraceous; 
ungues equal and simple. 
Wings with the costal border marked with four prominent 
black spots and a small basal one, separating five small clear 
yellow ones; the first, second, and third costal spots have 
similar black areas under them on the first longitudinal; the 
last has a black-scaled area commencing just under it, but is not 
similar in arrangement; veins clothed with mostly long dusky 
scales, a yellow patch at the base of the first fork-cell and the 
tip of its first branch, another at the base of the second fork-cell 
and at the tip of its second branch, also at the' cross-veins, a 
long patch at the lower branch of the fifth, a small one on its 
upper branch, and one on the stem, and another towards the 
base of the sixth vein ; first sub-marginal cell longer and narrower 
than the second posterior cell, its base nearer the base of the 
wing than that of the latter, its stem equal to the length of 
the cell, the fork diverging about the middle of the second black 
costal spot from the apex; stem of the second posterior cell 
much longer than the cell. Wing fringe dusky, with three yellow 
patches, namely, at the end of the lower branch of the fourth 
and the two branches of the fifth ; posterior cross-vein behind 
the mid, not quite its own length distant. Halteres with almost 
white stem and dusky black knob. 
Length. —3 to 3’5 mm. 
Time of capture .—December in Madras. 
