1907-] Records of the Indian Museum. 305 



MYZOMYIA Blanchard, 1902. 



Comp. rend. Soc. Biol. Paris, xxiii, 795. -'■ 



nom. nov. for Grassia Theob. preoc. Fisch., 1885. 



There is also a Grasia Mich., 1854, in Echinodermata. 

 Grassia Theob., 1902, Jour. Trop. Med., ii, 181. 

 Myzomyia Theob. Mon. Culic, iii, 24. 



Id. id. Gen. Ins. Fasc. 26, p. 7. 



The larvae in this genus are mostly found in flowing water, 

 more rarely in ponds or stagnant water, except rossii and a non- 

 oriental species, superpictus Grassi. 



I. M. aconita Donitz, 1902. 



Beit. Kennt. 3, d. Anoph., p. 70, 2 . 



Theob. Mon. Culic, iii, 30, fig. (p. 31), wing 2 . 



Theobald's description is a translation of Donitz's, whose 

 description was apparently drawn up from a unique 2 in spirits. 

 Localities: Kajoe Tanam, WiUen Is., vSoekaboemi (Java) [Donitz]. 



2. M. albirostris Theob., 1903. 



Mon. Culic, iii, 24 cf 2 . Fig. 11, p. 25, palpi and proboscis. 

 Described from a perfect & and 2 . 



LocAUTY : Malay States (May) [Durham]. 



3. M. azriki Patton, 1905. 



Jour. Bomb. So., xvi, 630 cf 2 . PI. C, wing, palpus. 



Patton says it is a wild species breeding in pools with tihani 

 Patton, and that it is closely related to " turklandi Listen," but I 

 know of no such species as the latter. Perhaps he mea.ns- turkhudi 

 Listen. 



LoCAi^iTY : Azriki, (Aden hinterland, 5,000 ft.) [Patton]. 



4. M. culicifacies Giles, 1901. 

 Ent. Month. Mag., xxxvii, 197 2 (Anopheles id.). 

 N.B. — The cf in above reference = turkhudi Liston cf . 



Anoph. culicifacies 2 non & . Theob. Mon. Culic, ii, 309 (t. Th. 



l.c, iii, 48). 

 Id. id. James & Liston, Anoph. Mosq. Ind. 106, pi. ix, 



2, wing scales; pi. vih, i, larva figs.; col. 



pi. xi, full ins. 2 . 

 Id. id. 2 non cf . Giles, Handbk., 2nd Ed., 317; pi. 



ix, 12 a' 2 . 



