Genus Anopheles. 
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Fig. 60. 
1. Anopheles maculipennis, Meig. 2. Anopheles 
Walker i. n. sp. 3. Anopheles bifur cat us, L. 
(Cross-veins, fork-cells and fork-scales from 
the head.) 
length distant from the mid cross-vein, the mid about half its 
own length nearer the apex than the supernumerary. Halteres 
with straw-coloured stems and the upper part of the knob 
black. 
Length .—5 to 5^ mm. ; with proboscis 8 to 8-|. 
$. Head brown, with upright creamy scales in the middle 
and upright black scales at the sides, a dense creamy tuft of 
hairs projecting forwards; antennae brown with flaxen plumes, 
basal joint very dark brown; palpi brown, 
last two joints spatulate, hair-tufts golden- 
brown ; proboscis brown. 
Thorax slaty-grey in the middle, dark 
brown at the sides, with a median thin 
brown line, and pale golden curved hair-like 
scales, a rather dense tuft of creamy ones 
in front over the head; scutellum bright 
brown ; metanotum rather darker brown; 
pleurae pale brown with greyish markings. 
Abdomen chestnut - brown and dark 
brown, the dark brown at the apices of the 
segments and also at the base and centre; a pale median line 
runs the whole length of the abdomen which has long, dense, 
Fig. 61. 
Genitalia of A nopheles 
bifurcatus. (X. 50.) 
(After Ficalbi.) 
