Ii6 Records of the Indian Museum. [Vol. XVII, 



213; III. 113; IV, 128, tab. spp. : Blanch., 

 Moust., 200, 221, tab. spp. : Theob., Gen. Ins., 

 Fasc. 26, 12: Brun., Rec. Ind. Mus. I, 323; IV, 

 435 ; X, 65 : How., Dyar and Knab, Mosq. N. 

 Amer., etc., IV, 927. 



Megarhina, Giles, Handbk., etc., 119; 2nd ed., 

 265 : Auctt. 



Genotype, Culex haetnorrhoidalis Fab., by origi- 

 nal designation. 



The genus Megarhinus is not Oriental, but the species belong- 

 ing to Toxorhynchites were originally assigned to it , therefore 

 a few references are given here. 



Toxorhynchites, Theob. 

 Monog. Culic. I, 244 (1901). 



Theob., loc. cit., Ill, 119, notes on life-history ; 



V, 95, notes and tab. spp : Id., Gen. Ins., Fasc. 



26, 13: Blanch., Moust.. 229: Leices., Culic. 



Malaya, 59 : Brun., Rec. Ind. Mus. I, 324 ; IV, 



435 ; X, 72 : Giles, Handbk., etc , 2nd ed., 278. 



Genotype, T. hrevipalpis Theob., by original 



designation. 

 Teromyia Leices., Culic. Malaj-a, 49 (1908). 



Genotype, T. acaudata, Leic, sp. nov , loc. cit. 



by my designation, 1914. 



Brun., Rec. Ind. Mus. IV, 438, notes. 

 Worccstcria, Banks, Phil. Jour. Sci. I, 779 (1906). 



Genotype, W . grata Banks, sp. nov., loc. cit. 



Theob., Monog. Culic. V, no: Brun., Rec. Ind. 



Mus. I, 326; IV, 439; X, 73. 



splendcns Wied., Zool. Mag. Ill, 2, d- (Culex) (1819). 



Culex splendcns, Wied.. Auss. Zweifl. I, 3, cc : Macq., Hist. Nat. 



Dipt. I, 33. 

 Megarhinus splendcns, Sch., Reise Novara, Dipt., 31 : Wulp, 



Mid-Sumatra, Dipt. 8; pi. i, 2, wing: Theob., Monog. Culic. 



I, 235, pi. viii, 31, 2 , full ins. col: Giles, Handbk.. etc., 124; 



2nd ed.. 271 (Megarhina): Blanch., Moust., 225: Brun., 



Rec. Ind. Mus. I, 324. 

 Toxorohynchites splendcns, Brun., Rec. Ind. Mus. IV, 437. 



Java, Sumatra, Singapore. Types in Wiedemann's and 



Westermann's collections. Not recorded in recent years, pro- 

 bably one or more of the more recently described species may 

 be sj^non^'raous with it. 



amboinensis Del., Nat. Tijd. Ned. Ind. XIV, 381, c^, pi. v, 5 

 (Culex) (1857). 

 Megarhina amboinensis, Giles, Handbk., etc., 133 ; 2nd ed., 276. 

 Megarhinus amboinensis, Theob., Monog. Culic. I, 243 d" : 



