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clypeus scaly ; (ii) thorax, broad, flat spindle 

 scales ; (iii) scutellum, broad flat scales ; (iv) legs, 

 densely scaled ; (v) wings, densely scaled as in 

 Mansonia, also with long lateral scales. Species, 

 three. 



Genus g. Haemagogus. — Related to Aedes, 

 but palpi 'five segments. Head covered with flat 

 scales. Brilliant metallic (blue) mosquitoes. 

 Species, two. 



Genus 10. Wyeomyia. — Chaetae on the post- 

 scutellum. Head, flat scales. Thorax, spindle 

 and flat scales. Scutellum, flat scales. Palpi 

 short. Proboscis not as long as whole body. Species, 

 two. 



Genus 1 1 . Phoniomyia. — Resembles Wyeomyia, 

 but distinguished by (i) wing scales broad, lateral 

 scales as in Taeniorhynchus ; (ii) proboscis longer 

 than the whole body. Species, two. 



Genus 12. Dendromyia. — Resembles Wyeomyia, 

 distinguished by (i) scutellar scales small, flat, 

 rounded apically ; (ii) wings more densely scaled 

 than in Phoniomyia, scales Taeniorhynchus -like ; 

 (iii) proboscis moderately long. Species, five. 



Genus 13. Runchomyia. — Alliedto Dendromyia. 

 Characterized by (i) frons projecting as a blunt 

 spine ; (ii) proboscis as long as the body in ? ; 

 (iii) ventral apical tuft of bristles ; (iv) wings 

 covered with rather broad scales. Species, one. 



Genus 14. Sabethes. — Distinguished from 

 Wyeomyia by the asymmetrical wing scales. One- 

 or more legs with dense paddle-like structures in 

 both sexes. Mid cross-vein nearer the apex than 

 the anterior. Posterior nearer the apex than the 

 mid in the S . Third long vein carried through 

 into the basal cell. Brilliant metallic mosquitoes. 

 Species, four. 



