484 A Monograph of Culicidae. 
brown border-bristles ; metanotum deep shining brown; pleurae 
grey. 
Abdomen deep brown, with dull violet reflections ; on the 
venter the segments are pale at their bases; border-bristles pale 
brown. 
Legs deep brown, unbanded, the tarsi showing dull ochreous 
hues ; ungues small, equal, much curved and simple. 
Wings with long thin brown lateral vein-scales; fork-cells 
long, the first submarginal cell much longer but only slightly 
narrower than the second posterior cell, its base considerably 
nearer the base of the wing than that of the latter, its stem 
about one-fourth the length of the cell; stem of the second 
posterior nearly as long as the cell ; posterior cross-vein nearly 
three times its own length distant from the mid. 
Length. —3 mm. 
$ . Antennae plumose, plume-hairs brown ; internodes grey ; 
palpi very small, brown. Head, thorax, and abdomen as in the 
female, but the abdominal segments are deeply constricted at the 
base and the scales at the apical edges show dull ochreous reflec¬ 
tions (not banding). Wings much as in the female, but the stem 
of the first submarginal cell only one-third the length of the cell, 
and the posterior cross-vein only about one and a half times its 
own length distant from the mid. Ungues of fore and mid 
legs unequal, uniserrate; hind small, equal and simple. 
Length. —3 mm. 
Habitat. —Transvaal (Mr. Simpson). 
Observations. —Described from a single female and male. A 
small, brown, inconspicuous mosquito, the only species of this 
genus as yet recorded from Africa. 
Types in the British Museum. 
Aedes fuscus. Osten Sacken (1877). 
Bull. U.S. Geol. Survey, III., 191 (1877), Osten Sacken; Mono. Culicid. 
II., 226 (1901); III., 286 (1903); IV., 538 (1907), Theobald. 
Various localities in 27. America. 
The following have been described under the generic name 
Aedes, by Dyar and Knab, but they cannot be dealt with here. 
Aedes fodographicus. Dyar and Knab (1906). 
Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash. XIX., 165 (1906). 
