Genus Howardina. 287 
Genus 31. HOWARDINA. nov. gen. 
(Plate XV.) 
Head clothed with flat and narrow-curved scales, the latter 
forming a median area as in Aedes. Scutellum with narrow 
curved scales ; the mid lobe with four posterior border-bristles. 
Wings with the lateral vein-scales large for the size of the wings, 
long, rather thin, the median vein-scales small.  Palpi of 9? 
minute, four-jointed ; the penultimate joint long, longer than 
the two basal ones ; apical joint very minute. | 
6 unknown. 
All small species, and with ornamented thorax. Two species 
known, Walkeri and Grreeniz, n. sp. 
The genus occurs in the West Indies and Ceylon. 
HowarpinA WALKeERI. Theobald. 
Culex (Stegomyia?) Walkeri. Theobald. 
(Mono. Culicid. I., p. 424, 1901.) 
Head (Fig. 158) with a median line of silvery white scales, 
then a dark brown and then pale brown areas. Proboscis long, 
deep brown. Thorax deep rich brown, with a lateral broad 
silvery-white area and two median golden scaled lines running 
parallel in front and converging to form a single line behind, 
and two other lines not reaching the front of the mesothorax. 

Fig. 158. 
Head of Howardina Walkert. @. Theobald. 
Abdomen deep brown, with some basal creamy median patches. 
Fore and mid legs unbanded ; hind with metatarsi and tarsi, 
with basal white bands. 
@. Head brown, with a broad median line of silvery white 
curved scales, then a broad area of small flat dark ones, and then 
dull brownish-ochraceous ones, with a small dark area near the 
