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£ . Palpi deep brown, with a purplish tinge, the last two 
joints swollen into a distinct club, tipped with grey, and with 
brown plumes ; antepenultimate joint very thin, swollen apically ; 
antennae with flaxen plumes, the last joint swollen; scutellum 
simple, with fourteen very long brown border-bristles, and smaller 
ones forming a second row. 
Abdomen thin ; the pale areas more distinct, giving it almost 
a banded appearance, very hairy. 
Wing markings like the 9 , only the white spots are larger 
and more distinct. Ungues of front legs very unequal, the 
larger one with a large blunt median tooth, the smaller claw 
very minute; mid and hind claws equal and simple, the hind 
ones nearly straight. 
Length .—2*5 to 3 mm. 
Habitat. —Mashonaland (Marshall); British Central Africa 
(Daniels). 
Time of appearance .—April, in Mashonaland. 
Observations. —This new species has been sent in numbers 
from Central Africa. It does not appear to occur on the 
coast. ■> 
At first sight one would take it for Grassi’s A. superpictus; 
but the position of the cross-veins at once separates them, whilst 
the veins are not covered with black and pale scales, but dull 
grey scales. 
It can thus easily be told from superpictus. It also bears 
some resemblance to funestus; but in funestus the wing fringe 
is marked with yellowish spots, and the wing veins are scaled 
with yellow and black, the costal border being more irregularly 
marked than in Lhodesiensis; moreover, in funestus the mid 
cross-vein is nearer the apex of the wing than either the super¬ 
numerary or the posterior cross-veins. 
28. Anopheles minimus, n. sp. 
Thorax slaty-grey in the middle with a deep-brown line 
on each side. Abdomen shiny black with yellowish hairs. 
Legs brown, unbanded. Wings with three nearly equal creamy 
spots on the black costa and an apical spot ; fringe with a 
yellowish spot at the end of each vein except the sixth ; 
cross-veins separate, supernumerary nearest the apex of the 
wing. 
