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brown, with short golden-brown hairs and sometimes ochraceous- 
brown mottlings. Wings unspotted, the 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. Legs dark 
brown, with ochraceous reflections. 
9 . Head brown, with greyish tomentum, and small pale 
creamy curved scales in front, with a tuft of yellow bristles 
projecting forwards and pale yellow upright forked scales passing 
backwards as a broad band on each side of the central bare line, 
the forked scales at the sides black wfith dusky grey tips; a pale 
border along part of the eyes; antennae dark brown, basal joint 
bright ochraceous-brown on one side, dark brown on the other ; 
proboscis nearly black ; palpi ochraceous covered wdth blackish 
scales, which are densest at the base, a little longer than the 
proboscis ; clypeus brown. 
Thorax deep chestnut-brown at the sides, grey in the middle 
with a narrow median and two lateral brown lines; covered 
with long, curved, hair-like golden scales ; pleurae testaceous and 
grey; metanotum bchraceous-brown wdth a median dark line ; 
scutellum brown with dense border-bristles of a golden hue. 
Abdomen dark brown, some of the segments wdth their anterior 
parts brighter brown, in strong lights the abdomen looks steely- 
black ; covered wdth short golden-brown hairs and sometimes 
mottled with ochraceous-brown. 
Legs ochraceous covered with dark scales, coxae testaceous, 
also the base of the femora ; knee-spot and base of the metatarsus 
pale; ungues equal and simple; when the legs are denuded they 
look entirely deep ochraceous. Wings brown, veins with deep to 
bright brown scales ; first sub-marginal cell considerably longer 
Fig. 59. 
Wing of 9 Anopheles bifurcatus , L. (9). 
(X. 9.) 
and narrower than the second posterior cell, its stem a little 
more than half the length of the cell; second posterior cell with 
its stem as long as the cell, its base much nearer the apex of the 
wing than the base of the former cell; supernumerary and mid 
cross-veins parallel, the posterior cross-vein nob quite its own 
