igio.] F. V. Theobald : Report on Ciilicidce, 5 



Additional Localities and Dates. 



Bengal. — Calcutta, 2i-i-o8, i3-iii-07, i6-iii-o7, i5-vii-o7, 22-vii- 

 07, 2-viii-07, 6-viii-07 (5), 28-i-o8 {Annandale) , 3 and 4-viii-o7 (2), 

 i5-viii-07, 2-viii-07, 23-viii-o7, 4, 7 and i5-xii-o8, " biting by day " 

 (C. Paiva); Balliganj, near Calcutta, 30-ix, 9 and ii-x-08 {T. Ben- 

 tham); Rajmahal, 30-vii-07 (/^ Hodgart). 



The Himalayas. — Sukna, 500 feet, base of E. Himalayas, 

 Darjiling district, i-vii-08, "in deep jungle" [Annandale) ; Kurseong, 

 5,000 feet, Darjiling district, E. H.malayas, 5-vii-o8 [Annandale). 



Travancore. — Trivandrum, i4-xi-o8 [Annandale). 



"Numerous specimens of this species were reared in July, 

 1909, by Mr. G. H. Tipper, from a glass of water left standing on a 

 table in the ofhce of the Geological vSurvey of India, Calcutta" 

 [Annandale). 



16, Desvoidea panalectros, Giles. 



The co-type (Reg. No. -tI-) is nothing but an immature large 

 Culex fatigans , Wied., with distinct abdominal banding. 



17. Desvoidea apicalis, sp. nov. 



Head dark brown, paler around the eyes; palpi and proboscis 

 black. Thorax bronzy brown, with a pale line around the front 

 and sides ; pleurse brown with silvery white-scaled areas. Abdomen 

 black with prominent apical yellow bands and snowy white lateral 

 spots. Legs black, unhanded, bases and venter of femora white. 



2 . Head clothed with fiat violet- black scales, some white 

 ones forming a central line and small creamy curved ones forming 

 a border around the eyes; a tuft of pale golden chaetse projecting 

 between the eyes, dark ones at the sides; clypeus black with 

 small creamy spindle-shaped scales; palpi and proboscis deep 

 violet-black; antennae black, the basal segment testaceous and 

 black with small creamy scales, base of the second segment bright 

 ferruginous. 



Thorax black with narrow-curved almost hair-like bronzy 

 scales, broader and pale ones forming a Ijorder around the front 

 and sides of the mesothoiax, the scales longer, broader and larger 

 before the scutellum ; a dense tuft of brown chatse over the roots 

 of the wings; scutellum clothed with flat violet scales, border 

 bristles rich brown ; metanotum brown ; pleura^ brown with 

 patches of flat white scales. 



Abdomen black with violet reflections, all the segments but 

 the first and last two with broad yellow apical bands, narrowed at 

 the sides, and not passing quite to the edges; posterior border 

 bristles small, brown with pale reflections; large lateral white 

 spots, most marked on the apical segments. 



Legs black, unhanded, femora pale beneath, the hind pair 

 white below and at the base; chictai dark (in some lights the legs 

 have a brassy sheen) ; fore and mid ungues equal and uniserrate , 

 hind equal and sim])le. 



