MOSQUITOES OF THE SUBGENUS FINLAYA — ^KNIGHT AND MARKS 515 



Genus AEDES Meigen 



Subgenus Finlaya Theobald 



Finlaya Theobai^d, Monograph of the Culicidae or mosquitoes, vol. 3, p. 281, 



1903. (Type, poieii/a Theobald.) 

 Finlayia Giles (error), Journ. Trop. Mod. vol. 7, p. 3fiG, 1904. (Type, poicilia 



Theobald.) 

 Oualteria Luxz, Mosquitos do Brasil, p. 47, 1904. (Type, ostoaldi Lutz.) 

 Danielsia Thbx)bald, En torn., vol. 37, p. 78, 1904. (Type, albotaeniata Leicester.) 

 Hulecoct corny i(t Thkobald, Entom. vol. 37, p. 16^5, 1904. (Type, triUneata 



Leicester. ) 

 Popea Ludlow, Can. Ent. vol. 37, p. 95, 1905. (Type, lutea Ludlow.) 

 Phdfjoniyia Theobald, Genera in.sectornin, family Culicidae, p. 21. 1905. (Type 



(jubernatoris Giles.) 

 Lepidotomyia Theobald, Genera insectorum, family Culicidae, p. 22, 1905. 



(Type, magna Theobald.) 

 Gymnometopa Coquillett, Proc. Ent. Soc. Washington, vol. 7, p. 183, 1906. 



(Type, mediomttata Coquillett.) 

 Protomacleaya Theobald, Monograph of the Culicidae or mosquitoes, vol. 4, p. 



253, 1907. (Type, triseriatus Say.) 

 Psrudocarrollia Theobald. Rec. Indian Mus. vol. 4. p. 13, 1910. (Type, lopho- 



ventralis Theobald. ) 

 Molpemyia Theobald, Monograph of the Culicidae or mosquitoes, vol. 5, p. 479, 



1910. (Type, purpurea Theobald.) 

 Calomyia Taylor, Trans. Ent. Soc. London 1913, p. 684, 1914. (Type, priestleyi 



Taylor.) 

 Conopostegus Dyar, Insecutor Inscitiae Menstruus, vol. 13, p. 143, 1925. (Type, 



leucocelaenus Dyar.) 



Advlt. — Palpi of male at least half as long as proboscis, rarely 

 exceeding it in length ; last two segments usually more or less swollen 

 and hairy, but sometimes quite slender and bare. Palpi of female 

 variable in length, ranging from about one-eighth as long as the 

 proboscis {lacteus Knight) to fully two-thirds as long {fulgens 

 (Edwards)). Proboscis slender, usually longer than front f'^mora. 

 Antennae of male with plume hairs directed mostly dorsally and 

 ventrally. Vertex dorsum and scutellum narrow- or broad-scaled, or 

 with intermediate conditions occurring. Acrostichal and/or dorso- 

 central bristles present or absent, a few prescutellar bristles always 

 present. Paratergite with or without scales. No lower mesepimeral 

 bristles. Fore- and mid-tarsal claws toothed in both sexes, in male 

 the larger claws usually bidentate (unidentate in stonei Knight and 

 Laffoon) ; hind claws simple in both sexes. Genitalia: Male: 

 Basistyle with apical lobe absent ; basal lobe usually absent but occa- 

 sionally weakl}' formed, or rarely even distinct {harpeH Knight and 

 leiicotaeniatus Komp, for example). Dististyle simple, appendage 

 apical. Mesostome simple and undivided. Claspettes present (with 

 a peculiar basotergal lobe in aureostriafuR (Doleschall) and its related 



