40 Records of the Indian Museum. [Voi,. X, 



The principal character of Stegomyia is the 5-jointedcf palpi, 

 the ? having 4 joints, and the other genera added are said to be 

 very near it. Theobald is silent as to the nnmber of joints in the 

 palpi in these, except that Quasi stegomyia has 3 joints. This 

 would presumably throw this ''genus" back into Culex. 

 Bdwards ranks Scutomyia as a synonym of Howardina, whicli latter 

 I cannot separate from Culex. Some discussion may be raised 

 here as to the real preoccupation of Blanchard's name or not, on 

 the ground of the spelling. Meade first used the name for a genus 

 of Tachinid flies, spelling it Desvoidia, which is emended in the 

 Palaearctic Catalogue to Desvoidya, that is to say subsequently to 

 the use of the term by Blanchard, who spelt it Desvoidea. As the 

 terms are obviously all used in commemoration of the French dip- 

 terologist Robineau-Desvoidy the exact spelling seems immaterial. 



In any case, Blanchard's name, however it may or ought 

 to be spelt, has no real weight, being proposed as a nomen novum 

 for Arntigeres, Th,, under the assumption that the latter was pre- 

 occupied, which is really not the case, Armiger , Hartm. (in Moll. 

 1842), not being a true homonym. The original name Armigeres, 

 Theob., should be therefore restored as a matter of principle 

 though generic rank must be denied it. Theobald makes the 

 extraordinar}^ statement that " the wings have the 3rd long vein 

 continued on, into and through the basal cell as a distinct un- 

 sealed line " ! 



Brevirhynchus, Theob. The validity seems doubtful, though 

 the alleged 4-jointed cr palpi and the thick sinuous proboscis in the 

 2 are good characters. No definite opinion can be offered here. 

 The name, as a generic one, is in an}^ case ill founded. 



Mimomyia, Theob. 



Ludlowia, Theob. Bdnksinella ^ Theob. 



Megaculex, Theob. Boycia, Theob. 



Radioculex , Theob. Conopomyia, Leices. 

 Hispidimyia, Theob. 



This seems a definite, if not a very clearly limited genus, 

 characterized by the 2-jointed clavate & palpi, and the more or 

 less different shape of the marginal cell, also less distinctly by the 

 shorter fork cells and minor characters. Edwards admits Bank- 

 sinella as distinct, on the fore and mid ungues in the 9 being 

 dentate, not simple. In Conopomyia the 2nd antennal joint is 

 three times the usual length and as Leicester describes both sexes 

 of the three species it may possibly be constant enough to form a 

 sub-genus. " Mimomyia " is often regarded as intermediate be- 

 tween the Culex and Aedes groups, but Edwards has recently 

 shown the type species {splendens) to be identical with the above 

 group of genera, whilst the other species of the genus are quite 

 distinct, and for these he has erected the genus Ingramia, and 

 this latter genus I leave amongst those requiring confirmation. 



