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Appendix I.

PREVALENCE OF MOSQUITOES, DURING THE YEAR ENDING 30TH SEPTEMBER, 1901.

ANOPHELES.

CCLEX.

797

NAME OF STATION.

Specimens received.

Other Genera.

Number. Species.

Number. Species.

Central Station

Nil.

No. 1 Station

1,360

6

Ab

No. 2

576

1

b

574

No. 3

""

1,334

C

1,177

No. 5

107

107

1,255 efhikn

efhiknr efhiknor ehir

99

1 156

י

No. 6

多多

71

71

ehino

No. 7

462

447

eflik

15

No. 8

63

62

efhiko

1

Kennedy Town

764

716

efhiku

48

Mt. Gough

63

61

efbi

2

Pokfulam...

872.

21

a be

831

eflikmor

20

Aberdeen

735

7

b

681efghikmur

47

Stanley

Shek O

Shaukiwan

Tsat Tsze Mui

980

15

a be

948

efhiknor

17

750

116

a

632

efhimno

2

1,579

1,538

efhikmnor

41

607

47

a be

553

efhikn

Tsim Sha Tsui

678

:

676

cfbikn

2

Yaumati

1,069

2

1,065

efgbikors

3

Fuk Tsun lleung

572

*

557

efhiknor

14

Stone Cutters' Island.

81

80

elikon

1

Hung Hom.

729

725

efhinor

Kowloon City,

1,726

1

1,716

efhiknor

+ a

Sha Tin Gap

Nil.

Sha Tin

662

43

a be

529

efgbiknops

90

Sai Kung.

648

8

a b c

544

efghikn

96

Tai Po

819

191

a b c

618

efliknopr

10

Sha Tau Kok

4,428

414

a b c

3,987

efliknopr

27

Kat O

709

696

efbi

13

Sheung Shui

829

10

a b

805

efhikinor

14

San Tiu

Au Tan

Ping Shan Tai O Tung Chung Cheung Chau Lamma...

916

14

a be

23

efhiknor

79

1,853

113

a be

1,728

efhikmnor

12

251

12

a b

233

efghikn

408

38

a b c

361

efhiko

233

78

a

148

efhikm

4,704

1

b

4,703

efhikn

628

30

a be

574

efhiknor

24

Total....

32,266

1,169

a b c

30,221

efghikmnoprs

876

Less....

876

Net Total.........

31,390

Appendix II,

AN ACCOUNT OF HONGKONG MOSQUITOES.

A-Anopheles Sinensis (Wiedemann).

Sub-species: Annularis.

Wings spotted. Dark brown costa, with two lighter interruptions. Dark brown spots irregularly placed on wing field. Legs brown. White-banded at joints. White bands at apicos of tarsi.

Antennæ and palpi brown. Proboscis darker brown.

Thorax brown. Linear markings of a deeper brown.

Abdomen brown, unbanded.

Length, 5 mm.

B-Anopheles Maculatus.

A new species.

Wings spotted, transparent. Four linear black spots along costa, with three pale intervals. Also faint linear spots on wing field at points on course of veins.

Legs black, white-banded. White bands at apices of tarsi.

Antennæ grey. Palpi black, white-banded, and white-tipped. Proboscis dark-brown, with pale tip.

Thorax brown, with grey-white tomentum.

Abdomen brown, unbanded.

Length, 4 mio.