Genus Anopheles. 
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34. Anopheles Lindesayii. Giles. 
(Hd.Bk. of Gnats, p. 1G6 (1900), Giles.) 
(Fig. 19, PI. V.) 
Thorax ashy-grey in the middle, with a dark brown stripe on 
each side with three dusky median lines and golden hair-like 
scales. Abdomen black, with numerous pale and dark hairs. 
Costa black, with one creamy patch near the apex, veins mostly 
black scaled. Legs black; posterior femora with a broad white 
band in the middle. 
9 . Head black, covered with black upright scales, except in 
the middle line in front, where the upright scales are narrower and 
white ; antennae dark blackish-brown, basal joint black, the base 
of each joint marked by a narrow paler ring with the verticillate 
hairs arising from small black points, pubescence pale, hairs 
black ; palpi and proboscis long and thin, about two-thirds the 
length of the whole insect, covered with long black scales with 
violet reflections. 
Thorax ashy-grey, with a broad, deep chestnut-brown stripe 
on each side, a faint, narrow, median dusky line and an indistinct 
pale-brown one on each side of the latter; with scattered, pale 
golden, hair-like scales over the dorsum, a white patch projecting 
forwards over the neck, a few black bristles over the roots of the 
wings, sometimes showing brown, at other times silvery at the 
sides; scutellum greyish-brown, ochraceous at the sides, darker 
in the middle, with golden-brown border-bristles and narrow 
curved pale scales; metanotum deep purplish-brown. 
Abdomen black, with numerous long black and pale hairs, 
quite brown in some lights; venter pale. 
Wings with the veins mostly covered with black scales; the 
costa black, with one white to creamy-yellow patch near the 
apex; first sub-marginal cell longer and narrower than the 
second posterior cell ; supernumerary and mid cross-veins in one 
line, posterior cross-vein about half its own length behind ; two 
patches of yellow scales on the lower branch of the first sub¬ 
marginal cell, another at the apex of the third vein, one in the 
middle of the upper branch of the second posterior cell and two on 
the upper branch of the sixth vein; fringe, except at the costal 
spot, yellow ; halteres with white stem and deep black knob. 
-Legs black, except the coxae, which are pallid, and the under- 
