NOTES ON THE DIFFERENT GENERA 425 



NOTES ON THE DIFFERENT GENERA. 



Sub-family A nophelina . 

 Genus i. Anopheles, Meigen. 



\Syst. Beschr. Europ. Zwei. Ins. /., ii., 2 (1818). Meigen; Mono. Culicid., 

 i.,p. 191, andiii., p. 17, 1903. Theob.] 



This genus contains a few large species found either in temperate 

 climates or in hills and mountains of warm climates. The type is the 

 European and North American A. maculipennis. 



FJG. 276. WING OF Anopheles maculipennis, Meigen. 



Anopheles maculipennis } Meigen. This species and A. bifurcatus are 

 malaria carriers. True Anopheles only occur in Europe, North America, 

 the North of Africa and in the Mountains of India, and one has recently 

 been found by Bancroft similar to A. bifurcatus in Queensland. They are 

 easily told by the absence of scales on thorax and abdomen, and by the 

 rather densely scaled wings with lanceolate scales. 



Genus 2. Myzomyia, Blanchard ; Grassia, Theobald. 



[Comp. Rend. Heb. Soc. Biolog.,l$o. 23, p. 795 (Blanchard) ; Mono. Culicid. 

 iii., p. 24. Theob.] 



This genus occurs in Asia, Africa and South America, Europe and East 

 Indies. The type is M. funesta, Giles, found in Central and West Africa. 

 Some fifteen species occur in this genus. Although structurally there is 

 not much difference between this genus and Anopheles, they differ greatly 

 in appearance, and there are usually a few narrow-curved thoracic scales 

 projecting over the head, whilst the wing scales are much smaller in pro-, 

 portion, and the wings more uniformly spotted, always so along the costa. 

 Funesta is undoubtedly a malaria bearer. 



Genus 3. Cycloleppteron, Theobald. 



Mono. Culicid., ii., p. 312, 1903. 



Two species only occur in this genus, C. grabhamii, Theob., from Jamaica, 

 and C. mediopunctatus , Theob. (Lutz., ms.\ from South America. The chief 

 character is the presence of large black inflated pyriform scales on the 

 wings. The palpi are densely scaled. Neither have been shown to be 

 malaria bearers. 



