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APPENDIX I.

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

NAME OF STATION.

ANOPHELES.

CELEX.

2741

Specimens received.

Other Genera.

Number. Species.

Number.

Species.

Central Station,

Nil.

No. 1 Station,

1,360

6

a b

No. 2

79

576

1,255 574

efhiku

99

efhiknr

No. 3

1,334

1,177

efhiknor

156

No. 5 No. 6

45

107

107

ehir

71

"

71

ehino

No. 7

"

462

447

efhik

15

No. 8

63

62

efhiko

1

Kennedy Town,

764

716

efhikn

48

Mt. Gough,

63

61

efhi

2

Pokfulam,

872

21

a b c

831

eflikmuor

20

Aberdeen,

735

7

b

681

efghikmor

47

Stanley, Shek 0,

Shaukiwan,

Tsat Tsze Mui,

980

15

a b c

948

efhiknor

17

750

116

a

632

efhimno

1,579

1,538

efhikmnor

41

607

47

a b c

553

efhikn

7

Tsim Sha Tsui,

678

676

efhikn

2

Yaumati,

1,069

a

1,065

efghiknrs

3

Fuk Tsun Heung,

572

ย

557

efbiknor

14

Stone Cutters' Island,

81

80

ehkon

Hung Hom,.......

729

725

efhinor

Kowloon City,

1,726

a

1,716

efhiknor

Sha Tin Gap,

Nil.

Sha Tin,

662

43

a b c

529

Sai Kung,

648

8

a b c

544

efghiknops efghikn

90

96

Tai Po,

819

191

a b c

618

efhinnopr

10

Sha Tau Kok,.

4,428

414

a b c

3,987

efhiknopr

27

Kat 0,.......

709

696

efhi

13

Sheung Shui,

829

10

a b

805

efhikmuor

14

San Tin,

916

14

a b c

823

efhiknor

79

Au Tau,

1,853

113

a b c

1,728

efhikmuor

12

Ping Shan,

Tai 0,

Tung Chung,

Cheung Chau,..

Lamma,

251

12

a b

233

efghikn

6

408

38

a b c

361

efhiko

9

233

78

2.

d

149

efhikm

7

4,704

b

628

30

a b c

4,703 574

efhikn 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 apices 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.

6

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 mm.

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