I go 7-] Records of the Indian Museum. 327 



3, M. mucidus Karsch, 1887. 



Ent. Nachr. (1887) 25 {Culex id.). 



Mucidus- mucidus Theob. Mon. Culic, i, 272 9 ; pi. xi, 

 42 ? full ins. col. ; pi. B, wing scales. 

 Id. id. Giles, Handbk., 2nd Ed., 349 5 ; pi. 



xii, 3 wing 5 . 



4. M. scatophagfoides Theob., 1901. 



Mon. Culic, i, 277 2 ; pi. E, wing scales ; fig. 81 

 (p. 278) wing, thorax, scales. 



Giles, Handbook, 2nd Ed., 348 9 ; pi. xii, i,«, full ins. ; 

 2, a, venation. 



An attempt by Major Close to breed the species from eggs laid 

 by a 9 in captivit}^, failed. He records that for a week in Sep- 

 tember in the Police Hospital at Moradabad (N.-W. Prov.), it bit 

 viciously. It is also recorded from Myingan in Burma. 



DESVOIDYA Blanchard, 1901. 



Comp. rend. So. Biol. Paris, No. 37, liii (Desvoidea). 

 nom. nov. for Armigeres Theob., preoc. 



Armigeres Theob. 1901 Mon. Culic, i, 322. 

 Desvoidea id. loc. cit., iii, 134. 



Desvoidya emendation by Theob. in Gen. Ins. Fasc. 26, 

 p. 17. 



I. D. fusca Theob., 1903. 



Mon. Culic, iii, 135 cf 9 . Fig. 75 mid-ungues cf , 

 palpus & ; fig. 76, pupa figures. 



Theob. Mon. Culic, iii, pi. xvii, larva figs. 



Dr. Durham found the larva in a tub, and Miss Ludlow records 

 it as being bred in the Philippines, " from larvae taken from the 

 water-filled joints of bamboo poles in the fence." 



Localities : Kuala Lumpur {Dr. Durham'] ; Angeles (Pampanga, 

 Phil. Is.) [Whitmore]. 



2. D. joloensis Ludlow, 1904. 



Can. Ent., xxxvi, 236. 



Described by Miss Ludlow as a variety of fusca, mentioning 

 that the variation was constant throughout the 23 a' cf 9 9 ex- 

 amined, and as Banks admits it as a good species, I follow him. 

 Taken by an unrecorded collector at Jolo (Jolo Island, Philippines). 



