Genus Anopheles. 
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30. Anopheles maculipennis. Meigen (1818). 
A. quadrimaculatus. Say. 
A. claviger. Fabr. (1805) (no type existed). 
Culex bifurcatus. Meigen (1804) (?). 
(Syst. Beschr. Europ. Zwei. Ins. i. 11, 2 (1818), Meigen; Ins. Lapp. i. 808, 
Zetterstedt; Hist. Nat. Dipt. i. 32, 2, Macquart; Brit. Ent. 210, 2, 
Curtis; Bull. Soc. Imp. Nat. Mosc. iii. 294, 2 (1845), Gimiuerthal; 
Dipt. Scand. ix. 3468, 3, Zetterstedt; Ento. M;>g. i. 148, Haliday; Dipt. 
Beitr. i. 4, 2, Low; Fauna Austr. ii. 265, Schiner; Dipt. Neer. p. 330, 
Van der Wulp; Ins. Brit, iii p. 219, Walker; Bull. d. Soc. Ent. 
Italiana, 1896, p. 228, et 1899, p. 90, Ficalbi; Reale Accad. d Lincei, 
S. d. u. Zool. sulla Malaria, p. 77, Grassi.) 
(Fig. 17, PI. V.) 
Thorax brown, more or less dusky bluish-grey in the centre, 
with a thin central and lateral dark lines, deep brown at the 
sides, with scattered golden hair-like scales. Abdomen dark 
brown, sometimes with tawny-brown markings and dark apical 
bands, covered with much golden pubescence. Wings with the 
scales accumulated more densely in four spots : at the bases of 
the fork-cells, at the cross-veins, and at the base of the second 
long vein. Legs brown; femora and tibiae yellowish-brown 
below, small pale knee spot; metatarsi and tarsi dark brown. 
9 . Head with two patches of creamy scales divided by a 
central line, the rest of the head with black scales, a small tuft 
of white hairs in front, borders of the eyes white; eyes deep 
purplish-black ; antennae dark brown, with pale bands and with 
ferruginous basal joint, pale pubescence and brown hairs ; pro¬ 
boscis brown; palpi yellowish-brown, with dense dark scales at 
the base, which is swollen, shorter than the proboscis. 
Thorax brown, more or less dusky bluish-grey in the centre, 
with a thin central and lateral dark lines, with scattered golden 
hair-like scales, deep brown at the sides; scutellum tawny at the 
base, pale grey at the sides, with dark centre ; metanotum deep 
reddish-brown ; pleurae reddish-brown, with paler areas. 
Abdomen deep brownish-black, with golden-brown hairs—in 
certain lights the segments are darkened apically. In some 
specimens the abdomen has tawny-brown mottlings at the base 
and the centre of the segments, and in others it is brown, with 
dark apical bands. 
Legs with pale coxae; femora and tibiae yellowish-brown 
below, covered with dark brown scales above; knee spot yellow, 
