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Genus Stegomyia. 
testaceous, with black bristles and a few dusky scales. Legs 
with the coxae yellowish, femora and remainder all black, knee 
spot only to the hind legs, where it is broad, the last two tarsal 
joints densely scaled with long black scales , giving them a “ paddle- 
like” appearance. Fore ungues unequal, one very thick, un¬ 
toothed, the smaller one thin and serrated ; mid unequal, neither 
toothed, the large one very broad; hind equal, small, simple. 
Wings with the first sub-marginal cell very much longer than 
the second posterior cell, about two and a half times longer than 
the stem; posterior cell with the forks widely divergent and the 
stem much longer than the cell; posterior cross-vein rather more 
than its own length distant from the mid cross-vein. 
Length. —5'5 mm. 
Habitat. —Sierra Leone (Austen, September, 1899) (99, 267); 
Old Calabar (Annett). 
Time of capture. —August and September (Austen), May 
(Annett). 
Observations. —Described from a series brought back by 
Mr. Austen from the West Coast of Africa. The specimens 
were bred from larvae found at Freetown, in water in an old 
tin and bottle. The thoracic ornamentation and the curious 
paddle-like appearance of the hind tarsi of the male will at once 
distinguish this species A 
Genus 9.— STEGOMYIA. nov. gen. * 
Palpi short in the 9 » long hi the $ , four-jointed in the 9 ? 
and five-jointed in the £ . 
Head clothed completely with an armour of broad flat scales; 
mesothorax covered with either narrow-curved or spindle-shaped 
scales; scutellum always with broad flat scales to the middle 
lobe, and usually with them present on the lateral lobes 
(Fig. 9, A); abdomen completely covered with flat scales, banded 
or unbanded, with white lateral spots. The 9 palpi are small, 
never more than one-third of the length of the proboscis ; those 
of the £ are long, or longer than the proboscis and usually nude. 
Wings with similar venation to a typical Culex, but the fork 
cells short. 
* The second species, E. Austenii , will be described in the third volume. 
