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Rh Palpi with two narrow white rings and a minute white tip. culicifacies, Giles = Listoni, Giles = Indica, Theo- bald.

Wing fringe with more than three pale spots.

Palpi with two broad apical white bands, and a third narrow one. Christophersi, n. sp.

Palpi with a black tip. Turkhudi, Listen.

Legs speckled and banded, abdomen densely scaled,

two eye-like thoracic spots. Korhii, Donitz. ii. Costa uniformly colored.

Femora with a white band. Lindesityii, Giles.

Anopheles pulcherrimus. n. sp.

Thorax ashy-brown with frosty grey and very pale ochraceous scales, unadorned, except for two narrow dark lines on the posterior half. Abdomen densely covered with frosty and pale ochraceous scales, darker basal bands and distinct lateral apical tufts of black scales ; venter and sides mostly white scaled. Wings with the fringe mostly pale, with seven more or less distinct dark patches ; costal border with four large black spots, and a few small ones on the yellow-scaled veins. Legs ashy-grey, the fore and mid tarsi and tibiae with apical white bands ; in the hind legs, all the tarsi white, except the base of the first, which is black ; a large white spot, nearly a band, near the apex of the femora. Ungues equal and simple.

$ Head densely clothed with broad upright forked scales, creamy white in front, rich ochraceous behind ; with a dense tuft of white hairs projecting forwards ; antennae dark brown, with tufts of -white scales on the joints, verticillate hairs white ; palpi densely scaly, covered with brown scales and four prominent white rings, the broadest being the apical one.

Thorax brown to ashy-brown, covered with broad, flat, spindle- shaped grey scales, giving it a frosty appearance. Some of these scales have a slight ochraceous tinge in some lights, three distinct tufts of long and some short white scales projecting forwards over the head ; thoracic hairs pale golden ; scutellum brown, with similar scales to the mesonotum, and pale golden border-bristles may be seen when held in one direction, black when held in another; metanotum brown ; pleurae densely white scaled. (When held in certain lights two dark lines show on the posterior part of the mesonotum, due to two dark lines on the denuded surface.) Abdomen black, densely clothed with flat scales, the base of each segment nude and thus black, then follows a row of white scales, the remainder rich ochraceous ; at the sides of the apical end of each segment is a tuft of rather long flat black scales ; border-bristles pale ; venter black, with flat white scales. Legs with