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Genus PHAGOMYIA. Theobald. 

 Genera Insect. Fam. Culicid., p. 21 (1905). 



Head clothed with flat scales, except for a few scales along the 

 nape. Scutellum with small flat scales on the mid lobe, narrow- 

 curved ones on the lateral lobes. 



Allied to Stegomyia but easily separated by the narrow-curved 

 scales on the lateral lobes of the scutellum. 



Two species are definitely known and possibly a third (nigri- 

 cephala) belongs here. 



1. P. gubematoris, Giles, The Entom., p. 104 (1901) (Northern India). 



Stegomyia gubematoris, Giles. 



2. P. irritans, Theobald, Rep. Liverpool School Trop. Med., p. 3, App. 



(1901) (Bonny, West Africa). 



3. P. (?) nigricephala, Theobald, idem, p. 4, App. (1901) (Bonny, West 



Africa). 



Genus P0LYLEPTI0MYIA. Theobald. 

 Genera Insect. Fam. Culicid., p. 21 (1905). 



Head clothed with flat scales and with narrow-curved ones 

 on the nape. Scutellum with spindle-shaped scales to the mid 

 lobe, flat ones x>o the lateral lobes. 



Allied to Stegomyia but told by the narrow-curved scales on 

 the head and the scutellar scales. 



A single species only occurs in the genus. 



P. albocephala, Theobald, Mono. Culicid. Vol. III., p. 140 (1903) (Gambia). 



Genus PSEUD0H0WARDINA. nov. gen. 



Head clothed mostly with flat scales, but there is a small 

 median area of narrow-curved scales, and a few of the latter 

 forming a border around the eyes and along the nape. Palpi 

 short in the $ , long in the <J . Scales of mesonotum are narrow - 

 curved, also those of the scutellum. 



Wings with vein scales resembling those of Stegomyia ; fork- 

 cells rather small. 



