78 F. W. EDWARDS. 



male determined by Taylor and sent by Mr. G. F, Hill is very different from that of 

 C. vishnui, and shows some peculiar characters. The clasper is unusually broad, almost 

 straight, and has round its base a rather dense tuft of hairs. The lobe of the side-piece 

 bears the usual leaf and filaments, but the filament adjacent to the leaf is remarkably 

 long, flattened, and backwardly (caudally) directed. 



Culex taylori, nom. nov. 



Leucomyia anmdirostris, Taylor, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1913, p. 696 (1914) ; nee Culex 

 anmdirostris, Skuse. 



A male paratype has been received from Mr. G. F. Hill. The species appears to be 

 a distinct one, allied, as Taylor stated, to C. sinensis, Theo., but differing in having 

 the pale bands of the abdomen confined to the bases of most of the segments, and 

 without pale spotting on the tibiae. From C. sitiens it differs in the much broader 

 pale apex to the last palpal joint. 



Culex basicinctus, nom. nov.* 



Leucomyia annulata, Taylor, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1913, p. 695 (1914) ; nee Culex 

 annul atus, Schrank. 



Two males and three females have been received from Mr. G. F. Hill, collected by 

 him at Townsville. They were sent as Leucomyia annulirostris, but agree with Taylor's 

 description of L. annulata, and are almost certainly that species. C. basicinctus 

 seems nearly allied to C. whitmorei, Giles, and, like that species, has the pale rings of 

 the tarsi confined to the bases of the joints, and the pale bands of the abdomen 

 angularly produced in the middle ; it differs obviously in many points, e.g., its larger 

 size, duller thoracic colouring, and broader white tip to the last joint of the male palpi. 

 A peculiar character, not mentioned by Taylor, is that the male palpi have two black 

 bristles at the extreme tip, which are conspicuovis against the adjacent white hairs. 



Culex ventrilloni, Edw. 



Culex ventrilloni, Edwards, Bull. Ent. Res. xi, p. 135 (Sept. 1920). 



Culex albigenu, Enderlein, Wien. Ent. Zeitschr. xxxviii, p. 50 (Nov. 1920). 



A male of C. albigenu lent me by Dr. Enderlein enables me to state the above 

 synonymy. Somewhat unexpectedly, the species proves to be a true Culex, in Dyar's 

 most restricted sense ; the hypopygium has almost the same structure as in the 

 African C. simpsoni, Theo., and C. andersoni, Edw. 



Culex quasigelldus, Theo. 



Cidex auritaenia, Enderlein, Wien. Ent. Zeitschr. xxxviii, p. 49 (Nov. 1920). 



The above synonymy, evident from the description, is confirmed by the examination 

 of specimens sent by Dr. Enderlein. 



Culex (Lophoceratomyia) jenseni (Meij.). 



Cyathoniyia jenseni, de Meijere, Ann. Jard. Bot. Buitenzorg, (2) iii, p. 922 (1910). 



Lophoceratomyia curtipalpis, Edwards, Bull. Ent. Res. v, p. 127 (1914). 



The above synonymy is proved by comparison of the type of L. curtipalpis with a 

 paratype of C. jenseni, presented to the British Museum by Professor de Meijere. 

 The species is wrongly placed in my table of the species of this subgenus (Bull. Ent. 

 Res. vii, p. 227, 1917) ; it should come under heading 9, differing from the other species 

 there included in the shorter male palpi. 



* [There does not appear to be any reasonable ground for proposing this new name. Schrank's 

 species was transferred to Theobaldia long before Leucomyia annulata was described, and there 

 can be no possibility of confusion between them. — Ed.] 



