﻿A SYNOPSIS OF THE SPECIES OF AFRICAN CULICIDAE, 

 OTHER THAN ANOPHELES. 



By F. W. Edwards, B.A., F.E.S. 



{Published by permission of the Trustees of the British Museum.) 



Little is needed by way of introduction, beyond the statement that this paper 

 is really a continuation of a previous one (" The African Species of Culex and 

 allied Genera," Bull. Ent. Ees., Oct. 1911, pp. 241-268). In the present paper a 

 complete synopsis is given of all the African species, with the exception of some 

 of those already tabulated and of the genus Anopheles and its sub-divisions. 

 Through the kindness of Prof. R. Newstead, the author has now been able 

 to examine the types in the collection of the Liverpool School of Tropical 

 Medicine, so that the number of undetermined species has been considerably 

 reduced, and all have now been accounted for except those given as doubtful in 

 the paper referred to. 



The classification of Lt.-Col. A. Alcock has been adhered to, except that 

 Dixa has been admitted, forming a third sub-family. In this the writer is 

 following the expressed opinion of Prof. S. W. Williston. The names adopted 

 for the tribes of the Culicinae are those used by Messrs. Dyar and Knab, 

 while, in agreement with Lt.-Col. Alcock, the Megarhinini have been retained 

 as a distinct tribe. So far as possible, full generic synonymy has been given, but 

 synonyms of the species, unless determined by the author, have as a rule been 

 omitted. 



It must not be supposed that anything like finality is claimed for the conclusions 

 expressed here. Many questions require considerably more study, while others 

 must apparently always be matters of personal opinion. The examination of 

 more material has necessitated the partial modification of views previously given, 

 while some errors in the author's previous paper on the subject have come to light 

 and are here corrected. Doubtless some still remain. 



Mr. H. F. Carter has very kindly lent me a paper published by G. F. Leicester 

 in 1908, which he had unearthed. This has apparently been completely over- 

 looked ; it contains descriptions of a large number of species and genera, some 

 of which are referred to later in this paper. 



Sub-family 1. CULICINAE. 



Proboscis elongated ; palpi frequently elongated in one or both sexes, but 

 straight when short ; wings and legs scaly, and except in some species of 

 Anopheles, the thorax and abdomen also. 



This sub-family includes all the true mosquitos, and is co-extensive with the 

 family Culicidae as defined by Theobald and others. Although the proboscis 

 is always elongate (usually about the length of the abdomen), it must not be 

 upposed that all the species are blood-suckers — the structure of the proboscis 

 indeed is sometimes such as to exclude the possibility of the blood-sucking habit 

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