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not specified any individual as actual type, so that in cases where 

 the species has been described from several specimens these are 

 herein designated as paratypes, each beins; regarded as of equal 

 value. 



Subfamily CERA TOPOGONINAE.' 

 Calyptopogon, Kieff. 



Mem. Ind. Mus. II, 209 (1910). 

 Genotype, C. albitarsts Kieff., sp. nov. 



gibbosa ^ Wied., Anal, entom., 10 (Macropeza) {1824). 



Macropeza gibbosa, id., Auss. Zweifl. I, 20 : Macq., Hist. Nat. 



Dipt. I, 69 : de Meij., Tijd. v. Ent. L, 216 ; LVI, 337. 

 Macropeza javancnsis, Kieff., Mem. Ind. ]\Ius. II, 210, nom. nov. 



for gibbosa de Meij. (1910). 

 1 Macropeza javanensis, Edwards, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (8), XII, 

 202. 



"Ostindien" \}Vied.\ Semarang, i {J acobson] \ Peradeniya, 

 ii-1912. Type in Copenhagen Museum. 



' For characters and table of genera v. Kieff., (ien. Ins.. Kasc. 42, p. 44 ; also 

 (for table of genera), id., Rec. Ind. Mus. l.X. 161 1 Culicoidinae). 



* The synonymy of these two species is somew hat confused, owing to erro- 

 neous conceptions. VN'iedeniann Aescvxhcd gibbosa as entirelv black with the front 

 part of the thorax projecting stroi\gly over tile head. He then says, " N'ordersie 

 Beine " yellow with bl.ick tips; " hintere " lengthened, whitish, etc. Did Wiede- 

 mann by " beine " mean legs or feet (i.e. tarsi) ? ■ '" Legs " would be correct, and 

 consistent with his general use of the term. De Meijere adopts this view in his 

 redescription ( lijd. v. Knt. I., 216), giving liie legs as reddish-yellow, with knees 

 and extreme tips of tibiae, also last joint of all the tarsi, black. 



In the common Indian species, of which the Indian Museum has a dozen 

 specimens, and which 1 had always regarded (prior to KiePfer setting up albitarsis) 

 as gibbosa (interpreting " beine ' for once as " feet " [tarsi] and not " legs "), the 

 femora and tarsi .ire black or dark brown — irrespective of a little paleness at the 

 bases of one or more pairs in individu.il specimens ; the front tarsi are normally 

 yellow, but may occasionally vary from light brown to nearly white, with black 

 tips; the posterior tarsi are white or whitish, the hind pair generally the whitest, 

 all with narrowly black tips. I'his species has the conspicuous, conically produced 

 shining black thorax and wholly black body attributable in gibbosa. 



The erection of Calyptopogon and albitarsis first c.iused me to doubt this 

 identification of gibbosa. as Kietler described as albitarsis the common Indian 

 species 1 had regarded ,ts gibbosa. He mistranslates the older author's species 

 thus: "anterior and middle feet yellow with black tips; posterior feet whitish." 

 He wrongly employs the terms "anterior " and "posterior" for "fore" and 

 "hind": because whether Wiedemann meant legs or tarsi in this particular in- 

 stance, he certainly by ' vordersic ' alluded to the front pair onlv. 1 he colour of 

 the middle tarsi may well v:iry from yellow to white. He concludes that .Meijere's 

 identification oi gibbosa from Java is incorrect assuming that as he (.Meijere) re- 

 tained the species in \Iacropesa, the thorax could not be conically produced, but 

 must be as in normal species of that genus. He renamed Meijere's species " javan- 

 eiisis." .As I pointed out elsewhere (Rec. Ind. .\lus. \1U, 150J Meijere could not 

 have failed to note Wiedemann's very distinct description of the peculiarly shaped 

 thorax, so that, whatever his species might be, Meijere's "gibbosa, Wied. " must at 

 least be a Calyptopogon. 



.Mr. Kdwards notes (Ann. .M.ig. .N'ai. Hist. ^S\ XII. 202, 19131 a specimen 

 each of two species from Ceylon: (l,\ "javanensis Kieff. i gibbosa .Meij. nee 

 W.)," with Hull bro-wn thorax only slightly and bluntlv produced forwards, and 

 with yellow femora and tibiae, and, 121. 'gibbosa. W. {albitarsis, KieH.), ' with 

 shining black, sharply and conic.illy produced thorax, and btacl: femora and tibiae. 



