MOSQ^TOKS OF THE SUBGENUS FINLAVA-KNIOHT A«I. MARKS 517 



included in Howardina show no difference at all from A. (Fidaya) 



SnSVt%"ugh soL s'uch species as A. (F.) UuooceUer^ 



%\7"s fm'has recently revived the name Oualteria Lut. ior 

 all the New World species that are at present included m F^nlaya 

 In the ahsLe of the'evidence for this step, which .s to appear m a 

 later Daoer of his, it cannot be discussed at present. 



The species jacohinae Serafim and Lutz, maUH Dyar, and ^an- 

 J]^ Tcoqui lett) are excluded here from the subgenus fmZaya 

 itZ basis' of female genitalic cha..cters. The species mUoM^ 

 Tavlor is believed to be a Madeaya and so is also excluded. 1 he name 

 S^mt (Taylor) is a synonym of aegyfti (Linnaeus) and has 

 a^ordWiy been omitted. Natvig (1948) has exammed "jale types 

 of M JJ Zetterstedt and found them to be Aede. (Oflerojatu^^ 

 pvLtor (Kirby). Consequently, the names fuscxdm Zetterstedt and 

 r«^;JrTheobald have been removed from FinUya. The position 

 of upatc^sU Anduze and Hecht in K„M2/« appears ^°"»;^'^-t douU- 

 ful, but since no material has been seen it is included for the time 



^^'sylterMities.-^n the basis of ornamentation Edwards (1932) di- 

 vided the sugenus Firdaya into eight groups to which he appl'ed the 

 following vernacular names : Group A (kochi-group : Finlaya, s str , 

 Group B (terreiis-gubernatoris-group: Giialteria), Group C (longi- 

 nalDis-eroup) Group D (chrysolineata-group: Hulecoeteomyia) , 

 Group E(mediovittaLgroup: Gymnometopa), Group F (albotaeni- 

 ata-group : Danielsia) , Group G, and Group H. 



The following changes have been made in the groups proposed by 

 Edwards: Group G was found to be too poorly defined to be main- 

 tained and has been coalesced with Group D. In order to avoid con- 

 fusion the alphabetical designations of the groups were not shifted 

 following the removal of Group G. The word "gubernatoris was 

 omitted from the name of Group B for the sake of conciseness In 

 conformance with the policy commonly employed by Edwards 1932) 

 of using the oldest included species name for the group title, chiyso- 

 lineata" of Group D has been replaced by "aureostriatus,- "albotaeni- 

 ata' of Group F by "alboannulatus," and the name geniculatus 

 linked for the first time with Group H. For further identification 

 Edwards followed the practice of linking the oldest available sub- 

 generic name to each group title. The only change made by us m 

 this respect has been to add the term "Protomacleaya" to the title for 



