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A Monograph of Culicidae. 
Genus PECTINOPALPUS. nov. gen. 
Head clothed with narrow-curved scales, except at the sides 
and around the eyes in front, and some upright forked scales ; 
antennae plumose; palpi of male as long as the proboscis, 
irregular in form, of three segments, basal one swollen at base, 
apical twice as long as the penultimate, both with rather long 
Fig. 18B. 
Genus Pectinopalpus. 
6 palp. 
lateral hairs, the long segment with a series of outstanding 
scales of peculiar form in two groups of different shape. Thorax 
and scutellum with long narrow-curved scales. 
A very distinct genus, told at once by the peculiar $ palpi. 
I have been unable to find the 9 • 
Pectinopalpus fuscus. nov. sp. 
Uniformly fuscous brown. Fragile. Palpi very irregular 
and twisted in form. 
£ . Head black with pale smoky-grey narrow-curved scales 
over most of the area, dusky grey flat lateral scales and almost 
white ones around the eyes. Palpi and proboscis deep brown ; 
antennae brown with pale bands and flaxen plume-hairs ; the 
palpi have eight pale outstanding scales on long stalks on one 
side of the apical area of the long segment, and then eight dark 
long outstanding scales below of different form. 
Thorax brown with dull brown and dull, pale golden, rather 
long narrow-curved scales and deep brown chaetae ; scutellum 
