Genus Finlaya. 283 
genera. The most marked character in the genus is the presence 
of three ventral abdominal scale tufts. 
Nothing seems to be known of their life-history. 
I have named this genus after Dr. Finlay, the originator of 
the yellow-fever mosquito theory. 
FINLAYA POICILIA. n. sp. 
Head black, with some grey scales; palpi black, with snowy 
white apex ; proboscis black, with a white band ; thorax black, 
with narrow-curved grey scales ; pleurae blackish-brown spotted 
with white ; abdomen black, the segments with two white dorsal 
spots and white lateral spots; legs black, banded with white ; 
wings covered with black and white scales, the costa with three 
small and two larger white spots. 
Q. Head black, covered at the sides and on to the occiput 
with flat black scales grey at the sides, the central area with 
broad silvery grey scales and the eyes bordered with the same, 
a few upright black narrow forked scales dotted over the occiput. 
Antennae dark brown, basal joint with silvery white scales on 
the inside, the second joint densely clothed with black scales ; 
palpi prominent, deep black, with silvery white scales at the 
apex ; proboscis black, with a clear white band at the base of 
the apical half and a trace of white banding at the apex. 
Mesothorax black, with narrow-curved dull grey and white 
scales (partly destroyed by the pin), and patches of flat, silvery 
white scales at the sides in front of the wings; prothoracic lobes 
covered with flat white scales ; scutellum covered with flat, 
rather pyriform black and white scales on the middle lobe and 
with black ones on the lateral lobes, the base of the scutellum 
with silvery white narrow-curved scales, median lobe with four 
border-bristles ; pleurae blackish-brown to almost black, with 
silvery white puncta. 
Abdomen black, each segment with two median white spots, 
the last two segments mainly grey scaled ; there are also median 
white lateral spots; the apical segments with three prominent 
ventral tufts of black scales. 
Legs black, the femora with five snow-white bands, the tibiae 
with six similar bands, metatarsi apically and basally white 
banded and with a median white band; first fore tarsus apically 
white, next two black, last pure white; in the mid legs the 
