324 E. Brunetti : Catalogue of Oriental Culicidae. [Vol. I, 



the same as immisericors , and I therefore follow him as the latest 

 authority in this group. Moreover he thinks the present species 

 may be a Toxorhynchites. 



lyOCALiTY : Amboina 1^. Doleschall]. 



2. M. lewaldii Ludlow, 1904. 



Can. Ent., xxxvi, 223 cf . 



The type was bred in the laborator}^, but no notes were kept ; 

 the specimen is a unique and is perfect. Not mentioned by Theo- 

 bald in " Genera Insectorum." 



Locality : vSalog (April), Guimaras Island (Philippines) [LeWald]. 



3. M. minimus Theob., 1905. 



Jour. Bomb. So., xvi, 237 cf; pi. A, fig. i, palpus, wing, 

 abdomen tip. 



Described from a unique cf taken in March at Yatiyantota, 

 Ceylon. Theobald ignores this species in the " Gen. Ins." 



4. M. splendens Wied., 1819. 



Wied. Zool. Mag., iii, 2 {Culex id.) cf . 

 Wied. 1828 Auss. Zweifl., i, 3 (Culex). cf . 

 Macq. Hist. Nat. Dipt., i, 33 (Culex). 

 Sch. 1868 Reise Novara 31 (Megarhinus). 

 Wulp. 1881 Dipt. Mid. Sumatra 8 ; pi. i, 2, wing. 

 Theob. Mon. Culic, i, 235 9 ; pi. viii, 31 9 , full ins. col. 

 Giles Handbk., 2nd Ed., 271. 



Types in Wiedemann's and Westermann's collections. 



lyOCALiTiKS : Java [Wiedemann] ; Sumatra [Schiner] ; Singapore 

 [Wallace]. Rawas, (Mid. Sumatra) and Batavia [t. Wulp.]. 



TOXORHYNCHITES Theob., 1901. 



Mon. Culic, i, 244. 



Loc. cit. iii, 120, notes on larva, pupa, etc., of non-oriental 

 species. 

 Theob. Gen. Ins. Fasc. 26, p. 13. 



I. T. immisericors Wlk., i860. 



Pr. lyinn. So., iv, 90 cf (Megarhina). 



Megarhinus id. Theob. Mon. Culic, i, 225 cf 9 ; pi. vii ; 28 

 cf , full ins. col. (Megarhinus id). ; pi. ix, 

 33 9 ; full ins. col. (M. gilesii). 

 Id. id. Giles, Handbk., 2nd Ed., 273. 



