MEDICAL ENTOMOLOGY 



Posterior cross-vein slopes prominently in basal 

 direction, and median vein scales large and 



spatulate. Aporoculex 



(Culex group). 



Palpi of male acuminate. Wings ornamented 

 with various coloured patches. Scales partly 

 Culex-like, partly Taeniorhynchus-like . . I.ul/ia 



(Culex group). 

 Wings with dense linear scales ; fork cells short. Culicada 



(Aedes group). 



Wings with broadish lateral vein scales, median 

 large and spatulate. Front area of thorax 



silvery-grey scaled Leucomyia 



(Culex group). 

 Fork cells short, but vein scales broader than in 



Culex Culicelsa 



(Aedes group) . 



Wings with narrow linear or lanceolate scales. 

 Fork cells long in the female. Costa not mark- 

 edly spinose Culex 



Costa spinose ; male palpi bluntly acuminate. Microculex 



(Culex group). 

 Wing scales broader than in Culex ; male palpi 



plumose Protoculex 



(Aedes group) . 



Female palpi longer than in Culex, scales on 

 basal and second antennal segments, male palpi 

 enlarged apically dense hair tufts ; of three 

 segments ....... Banksinella 



(Aedes group). 

 Male palpi of two segments .... Mimeteculex 



(Aedes group). 

 Male antennae with special organs . . . Lophoceratomyia 



(Culex group) . 

 Proboscis hairy in the middle .... Trichopronomyia 



(Culex group). 



Male palpi with an outstanding line of scales . Pretinopalpus 



(Culex group). 



Wings with elongated broadish scales. Fork- 

 cells long. Brown species. Proboscis banded. Taeniorhynchus 



(Culex group). 



Golden, yellow and purple species . . . Chrysoconops 



(Aedes group). 



Wings with large broad and asymmetrical scales. 

 Scutellar scales narrow-curved .... Mansonia 



(Culex group). 

 Scutellar scales flat ...... Mansonoides 



(Culex group). 

 Wing scales large and fan-shaped . . . Lepidoplatys 



(Aedes group). 



Wing scales heart-shaped . . . ; . Etorleptiomyia 



(Culex group). 



