66 A Monograph of Culicidae. 
Gienus 5. PYRETOPHORUS. Blanchard... 
HowarptA. Theobald. 
(Compe: Rend. Hebdom. Soc. de Biol. No. 23, p. 795, Blanchard ; Journ, 
Trop. Med. V., p. 181 (1902), Theobald. 
(Plate V.) 
Thorax withnarrow-curved scales, often rather elongated ; abdo- 
men with hair-like curved scales, practically hairs (fig. 1, 5), the 
? lamellae only with scales ; wings with small, short, lanceolate 
or narrowish scales (Plate V.), much spotted as a rule; palpi of 
the @ moderately scaled; legs banded, sometimes spotted. No 
flat scales on the head. 
‘The larvae frequent puddles and streams ; those of Jeyporensis 
have branched frontal and median hairs. 
The genus was renamed Pyretophorus by Blanchard, as 
Howardia had been previously employed by Dalla Torre in 1897. 
It can at once be told from Myzomyia by the thoracic scales 
being narrow-curved scales, not hair-like. They are sometimes quite 
large. 
; PYRETOPHORUS JEYPORENSIS. 0. sp. 
(Plate VIII.) 
Thorax ashy-grey in the middle, with narrow-curved pale scales, 
dark brown at the sides. Abdomen brown, with golden-brown 
hairs. Palpi black, with three white bands, the widest apical. 
Wings normally, with three pale costal spots, two towards the apex, 
and a small one near the base, a fourth may be present ; fringe 
spotted. Legs deep brown, with very narrow apical pale bands. 
@. Head grey in the middle, deep brown at the sides, 
covered in the centre with creamy-white upright forked scales, 
and at the sides with black upright forked scales, with a tuft of 
long white scales projecting forwards over the proboscis ; anten- 
nae brown, the basal joint dark brown, the second and third 
joints with grey scales, pubescence pale ; palpi (fig. 16, 5) covered 
with deep brown scales, the apex with a broad white band, and 
a narrow white band on the apex of the penultimate and ante- 
penultimate joints ; proboscis deep brown, the apex pale. 
Thorax ashy-grey in the centre, deep brown at the sides, 
covered with narrow-curved creamy-white scales and dull golden 
hairs, shuwing darker lines on the median grey area when 
denuded, a tuft of long grey scales in front over the head ; 
scutellum brown with greyish sheen, with a few rather elongated 
narrow-curved white scales and brown border-bristles ; metano- 
tum deep brown ; pleurae rich brown. 
Abdomen deep brown, with golden-brown hairs. 
