Genus Anopheles . 201 
thoracic stripes which are also characteristic, especially when the 
thorax is rubbed. No males were unfortunately sent. All the 
specimens were taken from beds of reeds close to the low marshy 
shore of Lake Simcoe. I should not be surprised if this proved 
to be Wiedemann’s A. ferruginosus (Auss. Zwei. Ins. p. 12, 1828) 
from New Orleans, there being a striking resemblance in the 
thorax. 
33. Anopheles nigripes. Staeger (1830). 
A. plumbeus. Haliday (?) (1828). 
(Fig. 21. PJ. VI.) 
(Syst. For. o. d. i. Denmark Nid til fundne Dipt (1839) ; Dipt. Neer. ii. 3, 
p. 331 (1877), V. d. Wulp; Dipt. Beitr. i. 4, 2, Low; Dipt. Scand. ix. 
3467, Zett.; Kioj. Tidskr. ii. 552, Sfaeg; Fn. Austr. ii. 625, Schiner; 
Bull. Soc. Ent. Ital. (1896), p. 227, Ficalbi; Gnats, p. 175, Giles ; Zool. 
Journ. xii. (1828), Haliday ( = pluiribeus ) (?).) 
Thorax deep blackish-brown at the sides, the middle of the 
mesonotum frosty-cinereous ; abdomen black, shiny, with golden- 
brown hairs. Legs black, except the coxae and bases of the 
femora and knee-spots, which are pallid. Wings unspotted, 
densely scaled with dark scales. 
5 • Head black with a few white spindle-shaped scales in 
front, white upright forked ones in the middle and black forked 
ones at the sides; the scales on the head are few but large, a tuft 
of golden hairs projects forwards; antennae black with pale 
bands very indistinct, hairs black ; palpi covered with deep 
black scales, just traces of grey at the apices of the two middle 
joints ; proboscis black ; clypeus black ; thorax deep blackish- 
brown at the sides, with a broad median area of frosty-cinereous 
colour, with a faint median dusky line, which in front is 
bordered on each side by a few curved creamy-white scales, 
which become thiner and scarcer as they pass to the middle of 
the mesonotum, where they die out, rest of the mesothorax with 
a few scattered, pale golden, curved, hair-like scales, and with 
numerous longer pale golden hairs at the sides; scut ell um 
black, with a few short golden hajrs in the middle lobe and long 
dark ones on the lateral lobes; these hairs in some lights look 
fuscous; pleurae brown with slight cinereous reflections ; meta- 
notum deep brown to black. 
Abdomen black, rather shiny, nude, but with numerous 
golden-brown hairs. 
