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Genus 23.— Lepidotomyia.— Theobald. 
Head with central narrow-curved scales and lateral spatulate scales the 
latter approaching nearer the middle line than in culex. Female palps 
short male longer than the proboscis but not so much longer as the palpi 
in Culex. Prothoracic lobes with narrow-curved and small spatulate 
scales. Scutellum with densely packed scales about twice as long as broad 
and having their free ends serrated. Knee spots glistening white. Wings, 
much as in culex but the scales are rather broader. 
Remarks .—There is some confusion about the generic characters of this 
genus as Theobald states in “A Catalogue of the Culicidae in the 
Hungarian National Museum ” that the scutellum is entirely clad with flat 
scales and in the “ Genera Insectorum, Diptera, Fam. Culicidae ” he 
says the scutellum is clad with narrow-curved scales only. The first 
specimen examined by Theobald of this genus was one sent from the Malay 
States by me, but as he only had a female he did not care to classify the 
specimen. Subsequently I obtained males and also another species. The 
peculiar scutellar scales are the chief reason for separating these mosquitoes 
from Culex and I have therefore chosen the characters given me in the 
“ Catalogue of the Culicidae of the Hungarian Museum ” as the true ones 
and regard the generic characters given in the “ Genera Insectorum ” as an 
error. 
Lepidotomyia Alboscutellata. 
Head dark ferruginous with pale golden narrow-curved scales in the 
centre patches of dark brown and white spatulate scales laterally ; numerous 
dark brown upright scales scattered over the upper surface. Thorax 
ferruginous. Scutellum with brilliant pearly-white spatulate scales. A 
brilliant pearly-white spot at the base of each wing and pearly-white knee 
spots. 
Female Head .—Deep brown, in some specimens dark ferruginous ; central 
area clad with scattered pale golden narrow-curved scales, on either side of 
these a patch of dark brown spatulate scales (bronze-purple in some lights) 
and outside these a band of white spatulate scales, and dark brown upright 
scales over the whole upper surface. Basal joint of antenna dark brown 
with a few dark scales on its inner face, base of second joint pale yellow, 
remaining joints dark brown with dark brown verticillate hairs. Clypeus 
deep purple. Palpi about one-fifth the length of the proboscis clad with dark 
brown scales. Proboscis with dark brown scales. 
Thorax .—Prothoracic lobes dark brown with a few pale spatulate 
scales. Mesonotum deep ferruginous with pale golden narrow-curved scales 
on the anterior margins and golden-brown scales over the dorsum. 
Scutellum ferruginous, each lobe completely covered with closely 
packed brilliant pearly-white scales ; these scales are spatulate 
with the free ends serrated. Pleurae ferruginous with patches of 
scales similar to those on the scutellum. Wings clad with dark brown 
scales the median rather long square or oblique-ended narrow scales, 
the lateral broadly linear with abruptly truncated ends. Fork cells short, 
first longer and narrower than second, its base nearer the wing apex, its 
stem as long as the cell; posterior cross-vein about its own length from the 
