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APPENDIX 
Genus Mucidus. Theobald (1901) 
{Mono. Culicidae, Vol. I) 
A single species of this genus occurs in the collection, represented by five specimens. 
The characters of the genus Mucidus are as follows : — head clothed with narrow curved, 
forked upright, and long twisted scales. Thorax with narrow curved scales and long twisted ones, 
which are apically expanded. Abdomen densely scaled, the scales giving it a ragged appearance, 
Legs banded, densely scaled with projecting scales ; fore and mid ungues of the $ unequal, the 
larger with two, the smaller with one tooth ; hind ungues equal, small, toothed ; in the 9 all the 
ungues are equal, very thick, uniserrated. 
Wings covered with broad pyriform scales, many parti-coloured. Antennae 14-jointed in 
9 . Palpi of 9 half as long as the proboscis ; of the $ 6-jointed, a little longer than the proboscis. 
The venation of the wing is much as in Culex, but the posterior cross-vein is nearer the apex of 
the wing than the mid cross-vein. The insects have a mouldy appearance, due to the long twisted 
scales. The genus occurs in Australia, East Indies, Malay Peninsular, and the West Coast of 
Africa. They are often vicious biters. 
Mucidus africanus. Theobald 
(Mono. Culicidae, Vol. I) 
Five specimens of this distinct species were taken at Asaba in August, and can at once be 
recognized from other West African mosquitoes by the densely scaled legs and ragged appearance 
of the body. 
Genus Eretmapodites. Theobald (1901) 
(Mono. Culicidae, Vol. I) 
Two species of this genus only occur. The genus Eretmapodites is founded on a West 
African form in which the head is clothed with flat and upright-forked scales, there being no 
curved scales as seen in Culex. The palpi of the 9 are 4-jointed ; in the $ 5-jointed, long and 
thin, pointed, and with no hair tufts ; the mesothorax clothed with narrow, curved, hair-like scales, 
and the scutellum with flat scales on the mid lobe. The last two tarsi in the $ are densely scaled, 
forming a distinct tuft (Fig. 1, PI. I) in one species. The fore ungues of the $ are unequal, the 
larger simple, the smaller uniserrated ; the larger one stout, the smaller thin ; mid ungues unequal 
and simple. Venation much as in Culex. 
IV. Eretmapodites quinquevittata. Theobald 
(Mono. Culicidae, Vol. I) 
A single female of this species from Duke Town, Old Calabar, was taken in May. It is 
rather damaged and presents no peculiarities. It also occurs at Sierra Leone. The species can 
easily be told by the ferruginous thorax, with dark longitudinal lines, the abdomen almost black 
with silvery, oblique, Internal, shining spots and the densely scaled two hind apical tarsi of the 
$ (when fresh). The other species of the genus E. Austenii mihi hns the tnrsnl pnddle nbsent. 
