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Head with flat scales, except a small 



median area of narrow-curved ones ; 



scutellar scales all narrow-curved 

 Head with all flat scales except a thin 



line of narrow-curved ones behind ; 



scutellar scales all narrow-curved] 

 Head with small flat scales over most of 



surface, with median line and line 



around eyes of narrow-curved ones ; 



scutellar scales bluntly spindle or club- 

 shaped 



Head and scutellar scales narrow-curved. 

 Wing scales long, narrowly lanceolate, 



collected in spots ; palpi clubbed "in 



$ ; five-jointed and rather long in ? . . 

 Wing scales (lateral) long and narrow, 



and $ palpi three-jointed, $ not 



clubbed and hairy 

 Wing scales at apex of veins dense and 



rather broad, femora swollen ; small 



dark species 

 Wings with short, thick, median scales 



and short, broadish lateral ones on 



some of the veins ; scales mottled ; 



fork-cells rather short . . . . 

 Wings with dense, broadish, elongated, 



truncated scales 

 Wings with broad, short, asymmetrical 



scales 

 Head covered with rather broad flat, 



spindle-shaped scales ; scutellum with 



small flat scales to mid lobe 

 Head clothed with flat, irregularly dis- 

 posed scales all over, with patches of 



narrow-curved ones ; $ palpi clubbed 

 Abdomen with projecting flat lateral 



scales with deeply dentate apices ; 



wings not ornamented 

 Wings ornamented ; scutellum with flat 



and narrow-curved scales 

 7 Palpi short in $ and $ 

 Wings unornamented. 

 Antennae pilose in $ and $ ; second 



joint very long 

 Antennae plumose in the $ . 

 Head clothed with narrow-curved and 



flat scales. 

 Mid lobe of scutellum with six borde - 



bristles. 



Scutellum with narrow-curved scales. 

 Palpi in $ four-jointed, in $ two-jointed 



Howardina, Theobald. 

 Daniel sia, Theobald. 



.Hulecoetomyia, Theobald 



Theobaldinella, Blanchard. 



Culex, Linnaeus. 



M elanoconion , Theobald. 



Grabhamia, Theobald, 

 Tczniorhynchus, Arribalzaga. 

 Mansowia, Blanchard. 



Gilesia, Theobald. 

 Acartomyia, Theobald. 



Lasioconops, Theobald. 



Finlaya, Theobald. 

 JEdeomyina. 



Deinocerites, Theobald. 



, Meigen. 



