Genus Aedes. 285 
Genus 30. AEDES. Meigen. 
(Mono. Culicid. IL, p. 224, 1901.) 
Some of the species described as Aedes in the previous volume 
are now excluded and placed in separate genera. The characters 
of true Aedes are as follows :— 
Head clothed with narrow-curved scales on the middle, fiat 
ones laterally, which spread much further on to the occiput than 
in Culex ; the narrow-curved scales often forming only a broad 
median line. Scales of the mesothorax narrow and curved, or 

Fig. 157, 
a, Skusea funerea, Theobald. 9 palp ; al, wing scales first fork-cell ; a2, on third long vein 
b, Aedes fuscus. Osten-Sacken. ¢ and 2 palp; b! and b?2 asin a. 
C, Howardina Walkeri. Theobald. @ palp. 
d, Verrallina Butlert. Theobald. ¢ palp; d! and d? as before. 
almost hair-like ; scutellum with narrow-curved scales ; metano- 
tum nude. Scutellum with six bristles on the mid lobe. Wing 
scales much as in Culex, the lateral ones long and thin, the 
median ones small and flat; fork-cells moderately long, about 
one-fourth the length of the wing. 
