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Indian Lvstont of Liston, but can at once be told by, (1) the 
palpal banding being different, the three white bands in M. 
funesta being unevenly disposed, the two apical ones being nearer 
together than in Listoni. The latter species has also a very 
prominent white scaled third long vein; in M. funesta it may 
be entirely dark or may have a white patch, but is never so 
markedly pale as in the Indian species. 
This species occurs in abundance in the native huts on the 
coast of Gambia, and Dr. Dutton found many on the walls of 
the prison at Bathurst and in the Governor’s house. “ Both at 
Baia and McCarthy’s Island there were no ordinary or artificial 
breeding grounds,” writes Dr. Dutton, ‘‘ except here and there a 
large marsh. At Baia the marsh was about two miles away 
from the’ town. At the Cape, seven miles from Bathurst, this 
small Anophelete occurs in numbers and the larvae were found in 
rice swainps.” 
In the first volume of this book (p. 180 and 186), I pointed 
out that the difference between funesta and Rhodesiensis could be 
detected by the different position of the cross-veins. This does 
not hold good, for I have found the cross-veins in both vary so 
much that the characters are no good whatever in these two 
species. They are very distinct, however, for not only do the 
palpi present different characters, but the veins in Rhodesiensis 
are all dusky scaled, and there are no fringe spots, and the 
wings are always black at the base of the costa, whereas in 
funesta there is usually a pale costal spot near the base. Funesta 
is also smaller than Rhodesiensis. 
Myzomyia Ruopesiensis. Theobald. 
Anopheles Rhodesiensis. Theobald. 
(Mono. Culicid. I., p. 184, 1901.) 
Notes.—An important character separating this species from 
M. funesta is that the palpi of the 9 are thin and dark coloured, 
there being two narrow pale bands visible, the apical portion 
dark, with traces of a few pale scales at the base of the apical 
joint ; they are much longer and thinner than in funesta. This 
comes, therefore, near Turkhudi, from which it differs in having 
only two prominent palpal bands and in wing ornamentation. 
Additional locality.—Naniumba, Uganda (per Dr. Daniels). I 
have not yet seen this species from the coast, 
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