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Theobald at first regarded it as intermediate between the 

 Culicines and the Aedines, but later he placed it in the former 

 section, whilst Edwards sinks it in Ochlerotatus. 



Ncwsteadina, Theob. The alleged 4-jointed & palpi and the 

 long scales in both sexes on the basal antennal joints may separate 

 this from Culex proper, but it must be noted that some species of 

 Culex have the basal antennal joints more or less scaled. Its even 

 subgeneric rank is ver}^ uncertain, as the supposed 4th palpal joint 

 may be apparent only, due to a constriction. 



Mr. Edwards (Bull. Ent. Res. iii, 14) definitely sinks in 

 Ochlerotatus, the following genera as synonymous : Acartomyia, 

 Finlaya, Aedimorphus, Culicelsa, Culicada, Ecculex, Protoculex, 

 Pseudoculex, Chrysoconops, Reedomyia ^Pecomyia , Pseudograhhamia, 

 Phagomyia, Polyleptiomyia, Lepidotomyia, Lepidoplatys, Pseudo- 

 skusea, Pseudohowardina, Protomadeaya, Duttonia, Mimetecidex, 

 Geitonomyia, Myxosquamus, Neopecomyia, Stenoscutus, Bathoso- 

 myia, and Leslieomyia. Also, with a doubt, Gilesia, Gualteria, 

 Danielsia, Cacomyia, Stegoconops , Molpemyia and Andersonia. 



Mr. Edwards separates Ochlerotatus from Culex (Bull. Ent. 

 Res ii, 242) partly by the last two joints of the cf palpi being 

 thickened and more or less turned downwards at the tip, insteid 

 of being thin and turned upwards, as in the latter genus, but in 

 his above list of synonyms are included Lepidotomyia, Pecomyia, 

 Reedomyia, Lepidoplatys, Culicada, Culicelsa and Culiseta, and of 

 these Theobald does not mention the & palpi as clavate, although 

 it is true this is merely negative evidence. He separates the two 

 genera Ochlerotatus and Culex, in the females by ungual characters, 

 and speaks very positively on this point, but I am not at present 

 prepared to accord it such value. 



It seems impossible to recognize Ochlerotatus simply on the 

 strength of clavate or' palpi, there being so many genera admittedly 

 with the & palpi more or less swollen at the tip ^ and which 

 would be annectant, and in addition there would be semi-inter- 

 mediate forms, so to speak, to be found in those species which 

 were slightly aberrant in this character, yet included either in the 

 clavate palpi genera or the non-clavate palpi ones. 



It has therefore seemed justifiable to sink in Cidex all genera 

 considered by Mr. Edwards as synonymous with Ochlerotatus, 

 except Finlaya and Duttonia, the former of which ranks in the 

 present paper as a sub-genus of Culex and the latter as a genus 

 left in abeyance on account of the 4-jointed & palpi. 



Generic synonyms of Culex. 



Acartomyia, Theob. Aporoculex, Theob. 



Aedimorphus, Theob. Bancroftia, Lutz. 



Andersonia, Strickland. Bathosomyia, Theob 



1 These are Macleaya, Gymnometopa, Theobaldia, Grabhamia, Pseudograbha- 

 mia and Mimeteculex, with no doubt others. 



