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A Monograph of Culicidae. 



should be double, and the outer frontal hairs bifid and tufted, 

 and there are only five pairs of palmate hairs, not six. 



Fig. 13. 



Larval characters of Cycloleppteron grabhamii. Theobald. 



a, Palmate hairs ; b, labial plate ; c, frontal hairs 

 (after Grabham). 



Economic importance. — Beyond being an ardent blood-sucker, 

 nothing is known of this insect. Probably it also is the definitive 

 host of the malarial parasites. 



Genus FELTINELLA. nov. gen. 



Head densely clothed with upright forked scales, and a long, 

 dense median tuft of long, thin, wavy scales projecting forward. 

 Thorax with hair-like, curved scales, except for a median tuft in 

 front of narrow-curved scales ; prothoracic lobes with outstanding 

 scales, looking like upright forked scales. Abdomen hairy, 

 except basal segments of male genitalia which are clothed with 

 flat scales ; basal lobe of genitalia, divided into two segments. 



Wings with rather large, almost spindle-shaped scales. 



This genus comes near Myzomyia and Pyretophorus. 



From the former it differs in the form of wing scales, scaled 

 prothoracic lobes, and in the marked bi-segmented basal lobes 

 of the genitalia ; from the latter by the hairy thorax and genitalia 



again. 



The female has not yet been observed. 



