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A Monograph of Culicidae. 
Sub-Family AEDEOMYINA. 
(.Proboscis short in both sexes.) 
Genus 15.—AEDEOMYIA. nov. gen. 
Head with only upright narrow fan-shaped scales (Fig. 259, a); 
clypeus scaly; palpi short in both sexes, scaly; antennae 
fourteen-jointed in the 9 > basal joints scaled; in the £ the last 
two joints (Fig. 12, 3) are shorter than in Culex, and broad. 
Thorax with broad flat spindle-shaped scales (b) ; scutellura 
with flat broad scales (c). Abdomen densely scaled with flat 
scales. Legs densely scaled, especially at the apices of the 
femora and bases of the tibiae; ungues (Fig. 261, IV. and V.) of 
9 equal and simple, of fair size on the hind legs; of the £ 
.Fig. 259. 
Scales of Aedeomyia squammipenna, Arribalzaga. 
a, Head scales ; b, scales of thorax ; c r of scutellum ; d, of wing ; 
e, of pleurae. 
unequal on the fore and mid legs, the larger one toothed; equal 
on the hind legs. Wings densely scaled with broad scales (d) 
somewhat similar to those in the genus Panoplites and also with 
elongated lateral ones (vide Plate E); border-scales large, and 
fringe scales at the base of the wing very long (Fig. 261, II.); 
fork-cells unequal, base of the second posterior cell nearer the 
base of the wing than the base of the first sub-marginal cell; 
posterior cross-vein nearer the root of the wing than the middle 
cross-vein ; sixth long vein nearly straight. 
