48 Records of the Indian Museum. [Vol. XVII, 



sublimatus, id., loc. cit., 176, 9 (igr^). 



Kiirseong, 6-ix-09 [Annandale]. Unique /y/><? in Indian 

 Museum. 



flavellus, id., loc. cit., 177, cf 9 (1913). 



Maddathorai, Travancore, i8-xi ; Bangilore, S. India, 3000 

 ft. [Annandale]; Dawna Hills, i-iii-08 [.-innandale]. Three 

 paratypes in Indian Museum. 



spurius, id., loc. cit., 177, 9 (1913).- 



Madhupur, Bengal, 15-.X-09 [Pniva]. Unique typs in 

 Indian Museum. 



aterrimus, id., loc. cit., 178, 9 (1913). 



Durjiliug, 8-viii-09 [Jenkins]. Unique type in Indian Mu- 

 seum. 



setosipennis, id., loc. cit., 178, 9 (1913). 



.\ladhupur, Bengal, 16-X-09 [Pan'flJ. Unique type in Indian 

 Museum. 



brevistilus, id., loc. cit., 178, 2 (1913). 



Kurseong, vii [D'Abrett]. Unique type, in alcohol in Indian 

 Museum. 



.Subgenus Prohelia, Kieff. 



Rec. Ind. ^lus. VI, 319 (1911).' 

 Genotype, Ceratopogon decipiens Kieff., bj- 

 present designation. 

 ? Oecacta Poej-., Mem. Hist. Nat. Cuba, I, 236 

 (1851).* 

 decipiens Kieff., Mem. Ind. Mus. II, 182, o" , pi. k\, 10, wing 

 (Ceralopogon) (1910). 

 Id., Rec. Ind. Mus. VI, 321 (Prohelia). 

 Simla, V [.Annandale]. Unifiue type in Indian Museum. 



cubicularis Kieff., Rec. Ind. Mus, VI, 320, o" (1911). 



Kurscong, in bedroom, 23-vi-io [Annandale]. Two para- 

 types in Indian Museum. 



' A little confusion maj' occur here. In Rec. Ind. Mus. \'I, 319 (December 

 1911), the genus is characterised, but no species is quoted as type. Tlie first 

 species mentioned is " fetraclada Kieti." i^not described as new I, and this is 

 followetl bv two new species and by decifiieiis Kieff. described in 1910. .Now 

 in the Spoiia Zeylanica VIII, 1, published January 191 2, Prolielea is noted as a 

 new subgenus, and tetraclada (described for the first time) is the second of 

 five species described as niw. On the face of it. it would appear as if the 

 paper in the Spoiia Zeylanica had been -.vritteii first, but any way. that in the 

 Kec. Ind. Mus. was undoubtedly piihlislwii first, and therefore the correct original 

 reference to ihcgeiitts must be that of that journal. I-oHovving on this reasoning, 

 the type must be either decipiens (a previously described species! or one of the 

 twodescribedas new (cubicularis ^nA hiinalayae). I propose (/ef//>/e;)s as genotype 

 on account of being the first described of the species now referred lo Prolielea. Of 

 course for the two new species described In the Spoiia paper the original references 

 will be that journal. 



* Coquillett gives this latter genus as synonymous with Culicoides Lair., with 

 O.furens Poey, as genotype. 



