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Newsteadina, Theobald. Head thickly covered with 

 broadish sickles and broad darts, and with squames at the 

 sides. Scutellum with squames and hair-like scales. Male 

 palpi as long as the proboscis, female palpi more than half 

 that length. Wings (and the costa and wing-fringe) spotted ; 

 the scales are broad Mansom'a-like squames. i species ; 

 Mauritius. 



Finlaya, Theobald. Head rough, with overlapping but 

 loose-set squames, darts, and a few sickles. Scutellum with 

 sickles and fan-shaped squames. Some large sickles 

 scattered on the scutum. Male palpi shorter than the 

 proboscis, female palpi short. Wings (and the costa and 

 wing-fringe) spotted, or not ; the scales are broad piriform 

 squames. There may be ventral tufts of scales on some of 

 the abdominal segments. 5 species; Malay Peninsula and 

 Islands, New Guinea, Australia. 



/Edimyia, Theobald. Head shaggy with loose-set fan- 

 shaped squames and broad darts. Scutellum with squames. 

 Scutum with elliptical squames. Palpi short in both sexes. 

 Wings profusely speckled and spotted, and densely clothed 

 with broad " butterfly " squames. 2 species ; one of them 

 is found all round the globe in tropical latitudes, the other, 

 which is peculiar in having the legs plain brown, is found 

 in French Guiana. 



7. Forms Annectant between Culex, Stegomyia, 



AND .^DES. 



Myxosquamus, Theobald. A few sickles in the middle of the nape and 

 round the eyes. Sickles of scutellum very broad, some of them almost 

 squame-like. i species ; West Africa. 



Carrollia, Theobald. A few sickles in the middle of the nape. A 

 few squames among the sickles of the scutellum. i species ; South 

 America. 



Eumelanomyia, Theobald. A patch of sickles in the middle of the 

 nape. Scutellum with sickles only. Male palpi shorter than the 

 proboscis, i species ; West Africa. 



Acartomyia, Theobald. Some sickles scattered among the loose 

 squames of the head, and a few squames among the sickles of the 

 scutellum. Wings mottled with brown and grey scales, i species ; 

 Malta. 



Bancroftia, Theobald. Some sickles in the middle of the nape ; bristle- 

 like darts very numerous ; scutellum with some fan-shaped squames 



