Mosquito Systematics Vol. 11(.2) 1979 119 A Note on AnopheZss (AnopheZes) aberrans Harrison and Scanlon

ABSTRACT. Some preserved larval specimens of AnopheZes aberrans from penin-sular Malaysia have been found. What appears to be an additional character for separating the larvae of this species from those of An. bengaZensis Puri is recorded. Harrison and Scanlon (1975) described a new species in the AnopheZes aitkenii group in Thailand. They named it abermns because many of the adults had abdominal segments IV and V much paler than the other segments, an unusual character. In the limited time available they searched for spe-cimens of aberrans from outside Thailand, and among a series of 10 slides of larval skins from peninsular Malaysia in the British Museum (Nat. Hist.), they found 4 which appeared to be aberrans. This series had been collected by H. P. Hacker and presented to the Museum in 1920. I re-examined Hacker's larvae and confirmed that 3 of them, numbers 482.E10, 483.D7 and 483.D8, are aberrans. The adults of two of the three ( CJ 482.E10, 9 483.D7) have abdominal segments IV and V markedly pale