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(b.) Head with broad curved scales. Thorax with 
narrow-curved scales and short broad ones laterally. 
Female palpi about half the length of the proboscis. 
Legs with patches of erect scales. Cross veins normal. * 
. Genus 2.—Psorophora. 
(c.) Head with broad flat scales ; thorax with narrow 
curved scales; Scutellum with broad scales on the 
central lobe. Last two tarsi of the hind legs in the 
male with long erect scales. Cross veins normal.* 
Genus 3.—Eretmapodites. 
(d.) Head with narrow-curved long twisted and 
spatulate scales ; thorax and scutellum with long twisted 
scales. Posterior cross vein nearer the apex of the wing 
than the mid. Female palpi half as long as the proboscis. 
All legs with erect scales 
Genus 4.—Mucidus. 
•xtion II.—Legs with scales lying flat. Posterior cross 
vein nearer the apex of the wing than the mid. Wings 
with spots of pigment. 
(a.) Head with narrow curved scales above spatulate 
ones at the sides. Abdomen much curved. Thorax 
and scutellum with narrow curved scales.. Genus 5 — Ekrinomyia. 
'.ction III.—Legs with scales lying flat. Cross veins 
normal.* Mesonotum with narrow 7 curved scales. 
(a.) Head and scutellum with broad spatulate scales 
except in Desvoidya wdiere there are a few narrow 
, curved scales on the nape. 
(1.) Female palpi less than half the length of the 
proboscis. Legs and abdomen unbanded. Large 
mosquitoes. Head with a few narrow curved scales 
on the nape. Genus 6 — Desvoidya. 
(2.) Head with flat and upright scales only. 
Female palpi less than half the length of the proboscis. 
Legs and abdomen generally banded. Small 
mosquitoes ... Genus 7.—Stegomyia. 
(3.) Female palpi more than half the length of the 
proboscis. Metanotum nude 
Genus 8 — Leicesteria. 
(4.) Female palpi more than half the length of the 
proboscis. Metanotum with chaetae. Genus 
Genus 9 — Chaetomyia. 
Note. —The term normal used in connection with cross-veins of wing means such a condition as is 
nd in the cross-veins of a culex which in the vast number of mosquitoes is the usual position. The mid 
ss vein is in line with the median and the commencement of the posterior cross-vein is always on the 
e of the median nearer the base of the wing. 
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