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closely related to Culex and Melanoconion on the one hand and less so to 

 Aioretomyia [= Aedes. — F.W.E.] amongst the Aedeomyinae. In fact nothing 

 could better shew how unscientific is a classification based on palpi than that 

 genera so closely related as Culex, Melanoconion and Aedes should be placed in 

 different [sub-] families." These remarks are interesting, though Dr. Leicester 

 has wrongly interpreted the genus Aedes. 



Genus Hodgesia, Theo. 

 J. Trop. Med. VII, p. 17 (1904). 



Till recently this genus was only known from females, but Dr. Leicester claims 

 to have found the male of one of the species he describes from Malaya 

 (H. malayi, op. cit. p. 231). He says it is much smaller than the female, but 

 otherwise very difficult to distinguish from it, as the genitalia are almost hidden, 

 the palpi very short (apparently one-jointed), and the antennae pilose as in the 

 female. In both sexes these insects can be distinguished from other Culictdae 

 by the apically dentate wing-scales. There are five species described, two from 

 Africa, two from Malaya and one from the Philippine Is. They are minute 

 black insects with silvery markings on the head, prothoracic lobes and sides and 

 venter of the abdomen. 



1. H. sanguinis, Theo. (sanyuinae), J. Trop. Med. VII, p. 17 (1904). 

 Tarsi normal. 



Uganda ; Congo ; S. Nigeria. 



2. H. cyptopUS, Theo. (cuptopous), Mon. Cul. V, p. 545 (1910). 



Fourth tarsal joint on fore and mid legs with a tuft of long scales, fifth bent 

 at an angle with the fourth. 

 Ashanti. 



Genus Mimomyia, Theo. 



Mon. Cul. Ill, p. 304 (1903). 



Boycia, Newstead, Ann. Trop. Med. I, p. 33 (1907). 



Ludlowia, Theo., Mon. Cul. IV, p. 193 (1907). 



Megaculex, Theo., Mon. Cul. IV, p. 282 (1907). 



Radioculex, Theo., Kec. Ind. Mus. II, p. 295 (1908). 



Conopomyia, Leicester, Stud. Inst. Med. Res., Fed. Malay States, III, iii, 



p. 113 (1908). 

 Hispidimyia, Theo., Mon. Cul. V, p. 245 (1910). 



On examination I found that the single specimen (female) of Mimomyia 

 splendens in the British Museum collection possesses all the characters of 

 Ludlowia, even to the long bristles on the leg, while the remaining species of 

 Mimomyia, Theo., seemed to belong to a quite distinct genus. Subsequent events 

 supported this conclusion, for in a large collection just received by the 

 Entomological Research Committee, from Dr. Ingram of the Gold Coast, 

 is a good series of bred specimens of M. splendens, the males having the 

 two-jointed apically swollen palpi characteristic of this genus. As M. splendens 

 is the type species of Mimomyia it becomes necessary to sink Ludlowia 



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