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Genus Anopheles . 
9 . Head black, clothed with black upright forked scales 
behind, and on the sides and over most of the occiput, a few 
grey and white and creamy ones in front, also some curved white 
scales and a few white hairs projecting forwards ; proboscis deep 
brown ; palpi deep testaceous clothed with black scales, a white 
ring towards the base (apical portion denuded), longer than the 
proboscis ; antennae deep brown, testaceous at the base, with 
dark hairs and grey pubescence. 
Thorax slaty-grey in the middle, deep brown at the sides, 
the median grey area with rather large round brown dots 
Fig. 55. 
Anopheles minimus, n. sp, (9). 
a, Cross-veins ; b, cross-veins of A. funestus; c, thorax 
of A. minimus; d, wing. (X. 18.) 
(denuded) ; projecting over the head are some large white 
lanceolate scales ; brown bristles over the roots of the wings ; 
scutellum pale brown ; metanotum deep brown ; pleurae brown. 
Abdomen deep shiny blackish-brown with golden-yellow 
hairs. 
Legs testaceous-brown covered with deep brown scales, no 
trace of banding or pale knee spots ; ungues equal and simple, 
those of the fore legs curved, those of the mid nearly straight : 
femora rather paler than the rest of the legs, and those of the 
fore legs rather swollen. 
