GENERA OF SUBFAMILY CULICINAE. THEOBALD 213 



II. 



Femora and tibiae swollen apically and basally. 

 Wing scales small, dense and broad at the 

 apices of the veins. Small black gnats 



Wing scales longer and Taeniorliynchus-\ik.e 

 Similar, but male palpi shorter than proboscis . 



oo Abdomen with large flat projecting lateral 

 scales, with deeply dentate apices, in more 

 or less dense tufts. 



Wing scales of Culex type . . . 



ioo Abdomen with scale ventral tufts. 



Wing scales pyriform, dense and mottled . 



Melanoconion 



(Culex group). 

 Neomelanoconion 



(Culex group). 

 Protomelano- 



conion 



Lasioconops 



(Culex group). 



Finlaya 



(Aedes group) . 



Scutellum nude except for two lines of 



scales. 

 Head with small flat scales, with a 



median line of narrow-curved ones. 

 Thorax mostly nude ; scales on scutellum 



long and thin ..... Bancroftia 

 Head with broad, short curved scales, (?) 



those at sides broader and flatter but 



not spatuate; scutellar scales broadish. 



II. 



Near Finlaya but with mid-ventral ab- 

 dominal scale tufts .... 



Near Orthopodomyia but male palpi 

 longer, Mansonia-like scales on the 

 wings and very long scales on the 

 male antennae ..... 



Eyes very large, completely fused in middle line ; scutellum 

 with narrow scales ........ 



Scutellum with flat scales 



Pneumaculex 



(Aedes group). 



Orthopodomyia 



(Culex group). 



Newsteadina 



(Aedes group). 



Oculeomyia 



(Culex group) . 

 Molpemyia 



(Aedes group), 

 III. Eyes small ; scutellum with a large backwardly projecting 



process , , Rachionotomyia 



(Aedes group) . 



The subfamily Heptaphlebomyinae contains the single genus Hepta- 

 phlebomyia, Theobald, with three species from West Africa and 

 Madagascar. The subfamily Aedinae contains some nine or ten 

 genera, a full description of which will be found in Theobald's mono- 

 graph. The subfamily Deinoceratinae contains the two genera 

 Deinocerites and Dinomimites, the larvae of which live in crab 

 holes. 



