Genus Aedeomyia. 307 
““@. Head yellowish-brown, with small upright black scales and 
narrow-curved yellow ones. Antennae yellow and longer than the 
proboscis and measure 1°96 mm. The maxillary palpi less than a third 
of the proboscis and measure 0°34 mm., formed of three joints, of which 
the last is longest, yellow in colour. Proboscis 1°57 mm., brownish, 
darker at the end, and covered with small scales and hairs. ‘Thorax 
brown dorsally and covered with brown and golden yellow scales, the 
latter most numerous on each side of the median line; pleurae light 
yellow; scutellum pale yellow. Wings transparent; the fork-cells are 
unequal, the first sub-marginal cell longer than the second posterior cell ; 
posterior cross-vein is nearer the base of the wing than the mid cross-vein ; 
the sixth longitudinal vein nearly straight, the costal darker than the rest 
and the third longitudinal prolonged a little towards the interior of the 
first basal cell; the wing scales are both spatulate and linear; the 
balancers tawny. 
“he legs are dark brown, unbanded, and covered with scales all the 
way up; the scales are less numerous on thie dorsal surface of the femora. 
The coxae are tawny ; the femora, the tibiae, and all the tarsal joints are 
very dark brown. The ungues are equal and simple in the two first pairs 
of legs; those of the last pair are missing in all specimens; their formula 
0.0.—0.0.—?.?. 
“The abdomen is brown on the dorsal surface, with the apical 
extremity of the rings darker and the basal part lighter. The ventral ° 
surface is pale yellow, with a little brown apical band; laterally are 
yellowish spots. 
“Total length of body, including the proboscis, 6°5 mm.” 
Note.—Aedeomyia Americana differs at a glance from the 
only two species of the same genus known—Ae. squammipenna 
and Ae. venustipes—in that in the two last species the legs are 
ringed with white, while in Ae. Aimericana they are all dark. 
Habitat—Dr. Mathis has collected four specimens of this 
small species in the month of January in the village of Counani, 
Guiana. ee 
ABDEOMYIA SQUAMMIPENNA. Arribalzaga. 
(Mono. Culicid. I1., p. 219, 1901.) | 
Additional localities British Guiana, at the Hospital at 
Georgetown; one ¢ (Dr. Low); Trinidad (Dr. Lassalle) ; 
Ceylon, at Trincobud in March and May (E. Green) ; Sudan, at 
Gondokoro, on a small lake eight miles from the latter place 
(Dr. Loat, per Dr. Keatinge). 

