Genus Myzomyia. 49 
The egg is like a Qulex egg, without any floats; the only 
Anopheles-like character is a rudimentary frill enclosing an oval 
area about one-fourth the length of the egg. The eggs are laid 
in a heap, as in most Anopheles, before they are distributed on 
the water, and not in anything like a raft shape. The larva is 
also somewhat Culex-like, adopting an attitude at an angle to 
the surface of the water. It also differs from all other larvae in 
only having three pairs of palmate hairs ; it has also an additional 
large pair of hairs on the head. i 
Myzomyi1a HIsPANIoLA. n. sp. 
(Plate IX.) 
Very closely allied to Turkhudi, but at once told by the 
larger black apex to the palpi. 
@. Head brown with upright brown forked scales, with 
greyish tips and a wedge-shaped area of creamy-grey ones in 
the middle, a tuft of grey scales projecting between the eyes 
in front; palpi brown, with three pale bands 
involving both sides of the joints, the apical 
band being very small, the greater part of the 
apical joint being black. Antennae brown 
with narrow pale bands, last two joints slightly 
swollen ; proboscis deep brown, apex paler. 
Thorax slaty-grey in the middle with deep rich ; 
brown sides, about the middle of each brown ; 
area a deeper brown eye-like spot, covered with 
sparse curved hair-like scales ; scutellum paler 
with rich brown border-bristles; metanotum 
brown, shiny. Abdomen blackish-brown, paier 
ventrally, with numerous pale golden-brown 
hairs. Legs deep brown, tarsi unbanded, apices 
of all the femora and tibiae with a pale yellow 
spot ; ungues small, equal and simple. Wings 
with five black costal spots, the basal area being 
black, the first two apical spots being continued Fig. 26. 
evenly on to the first long vein, the third broken, Palpi of ¥. Hispaniola 
and M. Turkhudt, 
the smaller spot being basal, the fourth having 
a black patch under its anterior two-thirds, the base of the first 
long vein pale, upper branch of the first sub-marginal cell dark 
scaled except at the apex and base, the lower mostly dark scaled, 
but with a small pale spot near the apex and at the base, stem 
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