igio.] F. V. Theobald : Report on CulicidcB. 31 



Abdomen ochreous with deep brown scales, rather scanty 

 basally giving a false banded appearance, with basal lateral areas 

 of pale scales ; border bristles pale. 



Legs brown to almost black ; coxae and venter of femora pale ; 

 apex of femora and tibiae white, the remaining segments with api- 

 cal and basal pale creamy bands, last hind tarsal with all pale 

 scales, in the other legs pale in certain lights. 



Wings with the first fork-cell very little longer and narrower 

 than the second, its stem nearly as long as the cell ; stem of the 

 second fork-cell not quite as long as the cell ; posterior cross-vein 

 longer than the mid, rather more than its own length distant from 

 it ; scales large and brown. 



Length 2-5 mm. 



Habitat Calcutta (Annandale). 



Time of capture 30-vii and 3 or 4-viii-07. 



Observations. — One 9 and one o^ . The cf was described from 

 vSylhet, Assam {Records Indian Museum, vol. ii, p. 301, 1908). In 

 the description of the proboscis it reads as if it were long and thin 

 as in Culex] this is not so, it is ver}' swoUeii apically, almost club- 

 shaped in some views, with a long thin stem. 



Genus Bolbodeomyia, gen. nov. 



Head clothed with flat scales; palpi very short in the 9 , 

 slightly longer in the rf , antennse pilose in both sexes ; thorax 

 with spindle-shaped scales; prothoracic lobes with small fiat scales, 

 scutellum with flat scales; metanotum with a bunch of chsetcC 

 posteriorly. Wings with normal venation with rather long lateral 

 vein scales on the apical areas of the veins and with very promi- 

 nent long dense lateral vein scales on the fifth vein, along the stem 

 and one branch. Complex cf genitalia, the claspers endinsi in a 

 bulbous process. A very marked genus. 



60. Bolbodeomyia complex, sp. nov. 



Head, thorax, legs, antennse and palpi and proboscis brown. 

 Abdomen brown above , pale grey below in 9 , ochreous in the cf . 



cf , Head clothed with flat brown scales with violet reflections 

 and a pale creamy border around the eyes and at the sides ; chaetae 

 dark; clypeus, palpi and proboscis deep brown, palpi very small; 

 antennae deep brown, basal segment brown, pilose. 



Thorax shiny deep brown with scattered brown and paler 

 spindle-shaped scales; prothoracic lobes covered with small flat 

 creamy scales, scutellum ochreou.s-brown with flat dull scales; 

 metanotum brown with a large area of pale hairs posteriorly, aris- 

 ing from black points ; pleurae ochreous-brown with flat white 

 scales. Abdomen deep brown, traces of some pale scales at the 

 bases of the apical segments; venter pale grey, the integument 

 ochreous. 



Legs deep brown, coxic ochreous with white scales, venter of 

 femora pale. 



