Genus Hodgesia. 579 



Observations. — Described from a perfect male. The specimen 

 was bred by Major Smith from a larva taken in a hole in a 

 brook. 



This is the first Ficalbia that has occurred in Africa. The 

 only other species with banded abdomen is F. minima, Theobald, 

 from South India, but the Indian species has banded legs. 



Genus HODGESIA. Theobald. 



Journ. Trop. Med., January 15 (1904) ; Gen. Ins. Fam. Culicid., p. 40 



(1905). 



Head clothed with small flat scales, rather rounded apically 

 and loosely applied to the surface \ palpi very small, apparently 

 one-jointed, covered with scales ; antennae with large globular 

 basal segment, of 13 segments, long bristles at the nodes, short 

 along the internodes ; proboscis not quite as long as the whole 

 body ; clypeus normal. Thorax with the prothoracic lobes covered 

 with flat scales ; mesonotum with large, long, narrow-curved scales ; 

 scutellum with small flat scales similar to the head ; abdomen 

 with flat scales, arranged ventrally so as to form slightly pro- 

 jecting tufts. 



Legs long, especially the hind pair ; apices of the femora and 

 tibiae rather dilated ; fore femora slightly swollen ; ungues equal 

 and simple in the $ . 



Wings with normal Culicine venation, but the third long 

 vein is carried past the marginal cross-vein as a scaled vein ; the 

 lateral vein-scales long and nearly overlapping those of contiguous 

 veins, their apices with marked lateral spines. 



Male unknown. 



This genus presents superficial resemblances to Stegomyia and 

 others, but can at once be told by the very marked structure of 

 the lateral vein scales. 



Judging from the palpi, if their characters are any index, 

 this genus should come in the Aedinae. 



Hodgesia sanguinae. Theobald (1904). 

 Journ. Trop. Med., January 15, 1904. 



$ . Head black with a median silvery- white area, the scales as 

 mentioned in the generic description ; black bristles project over 

 the eyes; antennae with very large black basal segment; remainder 



2 p 2 



