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Genus Anopheles. 
29. Anopheles punctipennis. Say 
C. hyemalis. Fitch. 
(Journ. Acad. Nat. Sc. Philadelphia, iii. (1823); Ins. N. Amer. ii. p. 39 
(18G9), Say; C ire. 40, 2nd se. p. 4, Dep. Agri. U.S.A. (1899), Coquillett.) 
(Fig. 24, PI. VI., and Fig. 145, PI. XXXVII.) 
Thorax deep chestnut-brown with slaty-grey tomentum in 
the middle, with pale golden hair-like scales. Abdomen dark 
brown with golden hairs ; legs brown, except the coxae, the knees 
and tips of the tibiae. Costa black with two yellow spots. 
9 . Head dark brown, covered with black upright scales, 
except a small patch of similarly shaped white scales in front; a 
tuft of white hairs projects forwards between the eyes ; eyes 
black with a fine pale border; antennae brown, with brown hairs 
and pale pubescence, basal joint very slightly paler ; palpi covered 
with brown scales, rather dense basally and showing a narrow 
grey band towards the base, a greyish tip and a broader band 
between, showing only in some lights, in others entirely brown ; 
proboscis brown, with very small scales. 
Thorax deep chestnut-brown, with a broad patch of silvery- 
grey tomentum in the middle, the dark chestnut-brown appearing 
as a stripe on each side, covered with pale-golden, hair-like 
scales; in the centre, in front, projecting over the neck, is a tuft 
of long creamy-white scales ; the pale central area shows more or 
less longitudinal ornamentation ; scutellum pale brown, slightly 
darker in the centre; metanotum deep brown ; pleurae deep 
chestnut-brown with paler patches. 
Abdomen dark brown to almost black, with scattered golden 
hairs, each segment bordered, with long hairs of a similar colour; 
at the base of the segments there seems to be a constant triangular 
swelling. Ventrally the segments seem to be dull greyish basally, 
due to reflections on the integument. 
Legs with the bases (coxae) almost white; femora, tibiae and 
tarsi covered with small dark brown scales ; knees and tips of 
the tibiae yellow; tarsi with dull purplish and ochraceous 
reflections under the microscope. 
Wings with the costa almost black with two yellow spots, 
one at the apex and another on the apical third of the wing, the 
apical spot involving the first long vein and the upper branch of 
the first sub-marginal cell, the larger spot passing into the first long 
