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NOTES. 
Toxorhynchites minimus (Theob.)—References:—Theobald : 
Jl. Bom. N. H.S., Vol. XVI., p. 237; Monog. Culic., Vol. 
IV., p. 138. Brunetti: Rec. Ind. Mus., Vol. I., p. 324; 
Vol. IV., p. 437. 
Since the unique male, which is the type, was captured at 
Yatiyantota in 1902, no further specimens of this species 
seem to have been taken, and though it has been moved from 
the genus Megarhinus, in which it was originally placed, to 
Toxorhynchites, the proof of its belonging to the latter genus 
is wanting in the absence of a female specimen. 
It has recently been my lot to obtain two such, and from 
them it is at once obvious that the species belongs to Toxor- 
hynchites. 
Before describing the female, I would like to note that 
Brunetti’s remark in his paper “‘ Critical Review of Genera in 
Culicide ”’ (Rec. Ind. Mus., Vol. X., p. 34) that the section 
Megarhint of the sub-family Culicine is characterized by 
possessing the posterior cross-vein beyond the anterior does 
not seem to constantly apply, as this is not the case in the 
type specimen here described ; whilst I also possess a female 
T. immisericors, in which the posterior cross-vein, though 
approximate, is distinctly before the anterior. 
Female—Head : nape black with apple-green and blue 
flat scales behind occipuf and over most of the surface, the 
posterior orbits fringed above with a single line of white 
seales, broadening on gene. Two pairs of blackvertical bristles, 
the median pair porrect, the outer more upward-directed, 
Basal joint of antennz globular, black with whitish sheen at 
sides, the flagellum 14-jointed, brown, the first joint very 
small, clothed throughout with microscopic white hairs, in 
addition to the long dark verticils at the joints. Clypeus 
black, shining whitish viewed from before and above. Pro- 
boscis black, with metallic violet reflections. Palpi only as 
long as head, apparently 3-jointed, black with metallic blue 
reflections, purple at apex of first and second joints, the 
colouration extending over the second joint on to basal third 
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