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Megarhinus immisericors, Walk., or amboinensis, Dol., Ost. 



Sack., Berl. Ent. Zeits. XXVI, 96. 

 Worcesteria grata Banks, Phil. Jour. Sci. I, 780, c^ 9 , pi. pal- 

 pus c? , genitalia <f , cross-veins cf 9 , scales, etc. (1906): 

 Theob., Monog. Culic. V, in : Brun., Rec. Ind. Mus. I, 326. 

 Culex regius, Thwaites, Proc. Linn. vSoc. Lnnd. VIII, 102 (1864).' 

 Toxorhynchites regius, Edw., Bull. Ent. Res. VII, 202. 

 } Megarhiniis subuHfcr, Dol., Nat. Tijd. Ned. Ind. XIV, 382 

 (1857)- 



Common and widely distributed in the East. Bhim Tal, 

 19— 22-X-06 [Annandalcl ; Sikkim, 1800 ft., vi [Dttdgeon] ; Sylhet, 

 5-V-05 and vi ; Chittagong, 3-ix-o8 ; Aijal, Lushai Hills, 3600 ft., 

 24-iv-04 ; Upper Burma [Watson]; Calcutta, i, vi, vii, viii [An- 

 naiidale, etc.]; Peradeniya (Botan. gardens), 1500 ft., not 

 uncommon; Pundaluoya, Ceylon, 4000 ft. [Green and T. B. 

 Fletcher] ; Trincomalee Hot Wells , Travancore , Mysore , Macas- 

 sar ; Andaman Is., Waigion ; North Ceram ; Mysol ; Settleberg 

 (Huon Gulf), Papua [Biro]; Bago, Negros Occidental, Cebu 

 (Phil. Is.). Types of immisericors and gitesii in British Museum 

 in bad condition; of C. regius in Hope coll., Oxford Univer- 

 sity, of W. grata in Entom. Coll., Bureau of Science, Manila, 

 Nos. 6071, c^ 2 . 



inornatus Walk., Proc. Linn. vSoc. Loud. VIII, 102, cf (Megarhi- 



nus) (1S65). 

 Megarhinus inornatus, Theob., Monog. Culic. I, 223, <:*• 9 , pi. vii, 



26, c^ , 25, 9 (both full ins. col.): Giles, Handbk, etc., 137, 



2nd ed., 271, o* 9 (Megarhina imnornata, lapsus): Blanch., 



Moust., 223, cr> 9 . 

 Toxorhynchites inornatus, Brun., Rec. Ind. Mus. I, 325 ; IV, 436. 



Papua. Type c 9 in British ^Museum. 



Icicesteri Theob., Entom. XXXVII, 36, & 9 (1904). 



Theob., Mong. Culic. IV, 142, cf 9 : Leices, Culic. Malaya, 59, 



& 9 : Brun., Rec. Ind. Mus. I, 325 ; IV, 437. 

 Kuala Lumpur ; Papua. Types in British Museum. 



• I decline lo accept Rdwards' suggestion to adopt the name regius by 

 Ternent (1859) in place of immisericors. \ " description " of a line or two (in this 

 case six words only) is no scientific description at all properly so called, even in the 

 case of a species recognizable by it. Moreover, there is, as Kdwards himself 

 admits, a second though tare species of Toxorhynchites occurring in Ceylon and 

 presumably the "description" of regius ^" one with a form id.ible hooked pro- 

 boscis ") would equally apply to the other species, minimus. Theob., the char- 

 acter being generic. Ternent is not known, so far as I am aware, as an entomo- 

 logist, the species was not scientifically described nor is "Ceylon " the journal in 

 which it was published a scientific publication. 



In the same pap<T (Bull. Knt. Kes. VII, 202) Edwards notes having found on 

 re-examining Walker's types of immisericors, from Celebes, that they aredifferent 

 from the species generally known from the East under this name, and he believes 

 them probably identical with subulifer, Dol. 1 do not care, without a close exam- 

 ination of Dofeschall's type if such be still in existence, to alter the present view 

 of immisericors (that is, Theobald's), but if Edwards' latest opinion should prove 

 correct, it leaves Theobald's form without a name. 



