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The Culicidae of Malaya. 
By G. F. Leicester, M.B., C M., Edin. 
Sub-Family ANOPHELINAE. — Theobald. 
Characters .—Palpi as long as or nearly as long as the proboscis in the 
female and in the male usually a little longer than the proboscis, the two 
last joints enlarged. Head clothed with narrow-curved and large flat 
topped upright scales and in all Malayan species there is a tuft of long 
hair-like scales projecting forwards from the vertex. Thorax and scutellum 
thinly clad either with hairs or hair-like scales or definite broad fusiform 
scales and on either shoulder above the prothoracic lobes is a dense tuft of 
upright scales. Wings generally spotted and clad with fusiform scales. 
Remarks .—This sub-family has now been split up into eight genera each 
with well-marked characteristics. Except in the genus Anopheles the 
members of which have scarcely any scales on the head the head scaling is 
very similar in all but the thoracic and abdominal scaling varies greatly in 
species of the different genera. 
Synoptic Table of Genera. 
1 —Thorax, prothoracic lobes and abdomen with hairs 
only. Wing scales of uniform colour; where 
spots are present they are due to massing of the 
scales and not to differences in colour. Genus i. — Anopheles. 
11 —Thorax, with hairs, except for a tuft of scales on the 
anterior margin projecting over the neck, and a 
dense tuft of palisade scales on each prothoracic 
lobe and above it on either shoulder. 
(a.) Abdomen, with hairs and a few scales on 
the external genitalia. Hind legs with a crest of 
long erect scales at the knee... ..Genus 
(b.) Wings, with more than two costal spots. 
Last two abdominal segments with scales, but with¬ 
out ventral tuft. Genus 
(c.) Wings, not more than two costal spots. 
Abdomen, with usually one or more central 
ventral tufts . . 
2.—Lophoscelomyia. 
3—Myzomyia. 
4.—Myzorhyncus. 
