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Genus Aedeomyia. 
sqaammipennis, the crests of long scales on the legs being a very 
marked character. They are certainly very different to the true 
Aedes, and I have thus placed them in the new genus Aedeomyia. 
It inhabits houses, and bites, but not severely. 
Arribalzaga’s specimens were taken in April on the window- 
panes of a house in Buenos Ayres. Dr. Lutz writes me that 
this species occurs in the same place as Uranotaenia pulcherrima , 
and that he has bred them from the larvae and that he has 
not observed it to sting. 
2. Aedes (Aedeomyia?) venustipes. Skuse. 
(Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. Wales, iii. p. 1761 (1889).) 
“ Proboscis deep brown, somewhat spotted with white scales, with a 
white ring in the middle and another rather broader one before the 
terminal lobes. Thorax deep brown, densely clothed with a mixture of 
brown and yellowish scales, with three oblong patches of yellowish 
scales, one apical and two lateral, on the anterior moiety of the thorax ; 
pleurae deep brown, with scattered white scales; scutellum with 
yellowish-brown scales. Abdomen densely clothed with brown and white 
scales, the latter predominating laterally and beneath. Legs slender, coxae 
deep brown, with white scales; femora, tibiae and tarsi brown, thickly 
covered with very small white rings and spots, except in the tarsi of the 
hind legs, in which the whole of the third and most of the fourth (except 
at the apex) joints are purely white; in hind legs the tibiae are three- 
quarters the length of metatarsus. Wings with all the veins thickly 
beset with somewhat broad more or less elliptical brown and yellowish 
scales, chiefly the former, which almost completely cover the wings; the 
mid cross-vein the same length as the posterior cross-vein, situated 
considerably beyond the latter and about opposite the middle of the 
posterior branch of the fifth long vein; second posterior cell about the 
same width as, but scarcely shorter than, the first sub-marginal cell, its 
base lying before that of the latter. 
Length: —3'81 mm. 
Habitat .—Elizabeth Bay, near Sydney (Skuse), one specimen.” 
Note. —Skuse describes this species from a single $, and 
points out the peculiarity of the “ broad more or less elliptical 
wing scales,” and says “ it may be a peculiarity of the genus.” 
Unless this refers to a Panoplitcs, it must belong to this genus, 
which differs so markedly from the true Aedes. I have seen a 
bad specimen of a Panoplites from Australia, but it scarcely 
answers to Skuse’s description. His species will, I think, prove 
to belong to this genus, particularly w 7 hen we note that he 
describes it as an Aedes. 
