Genus Anopheles. Vi 
Genus 1. ANOPHELES. Meigen. 
(Mono. Culicid. I., p. 115, 1901.) 
(Plates V. and VI.) 
Thorax and abdomen clothed with hair-like curved scales, 
practically hairs ; the palpi of the female thin, not densely scaled, 
generally unbanded. Wing veins covered with long lanceolate 
scales (Plate V.), which may or may not form spots, but which, if 
present, are never so numerous as in other genera. They are 
mostly large species and either belong to temperate climates or 
are hill species, when occurring in tropical climates. 
ANOPHELES MACULIPENNIS. Meigen. 
(Mono. Culicid. I., 1901, p. 191.) 
(Plates V. and VI.) 
Additional localities —Crete, Cyprus. It is recorded from 
numerous fresh localities in the United States. 
Notes.—In the Palestine specimens brought back by Dr. 
Cropper, the wing spots are very faint and they are all small 
in size, and the cross-veins are not all normal. The Crete 
specimens are also very small and with faint wing spots. 
The reviewer of the first two volumes of this monograph in 
Nature states that this species is found gorged with blood in Great 

Fig. 3. 
Anopheles maculipennis (9). Meigen. 
From Crete. 
Britain. Where he gets his information from I do not know, 
but wherever it comes from it is exceptional, for Anopheles maculi- 
pennis certainly does not suck blood here as a rule, nor does it 
occur, as he says, everywhere in Great Britain. I have lived for 
years in districts where it is very abundant and have never 
known it bite anyone, nor has anyone observed it to bite in 
those neighbourhoods, notably Kent and Huntingdonshire, as 
well as many others. 
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