igoy.] Records of the Indian Aluseum. 337 



5. S. sugens Wied., 1828. 



Auss. Zweifl., i, 545 $ {Culex). 



Theob, Mon, Culic, i^ 300. 



Patton Jour. Bomb. So., xvi, 634 ; pi. D, head of larva, 



male clasper. 

 Giles, Handbk., 2nd Ed., 375 cf 2 . 



First described by Wiedemann from West and Central Africa, 

 but it has been found quite recently by Patton in Arabia, breeding 

 in tanks, barrels, wells or an}^ still water, being a very common 

 species at Aden, its bite being very irritating. The cf is said not 

 to bite.-;^^,^^ 



LEICESTERIA Theob., 1904. 



Entom., XXX vii, 211. 

 Theob., Gen. Ins. Fasc. 26, p. 20. 



'NesLV^Eretmapodites , Macleaya, Scutomyia, etc. 



I. L. longipalpis Leicester in Theob., 1904. 



Entom., xxxvii, 211 cf 9 . 



Types in British Museum. Taken at Kuala Lumpur by Dr. 

 Leicester. 



HULECOETOMYIA Theob., 1904. 



Entom., xxxvii, 163. 



Theob., Gen. Ins. Fasc. 26, p. 20. 



These CulicidcB have the appearance of Stegomyice. 



I. H. pseudotaeniata Giles, 1901. 

 Entom., xxxiv (Stegomyia). 



Theob. Mon. Culic, i, 312 5 , fig. 96, thorax, head 9 , 



wing scales. 

 Larva descr. loc. cit., i, 314 ; iii, fig. 16 (p. 28), larva. 

 Stegomyia id. Giles, Handbk., 2nd Ed., 379 cf $ ; pi. 



xiv, 8, venation ; 9, body ; 10, larva. 



Apparently a hill species. Theobald says it occurs in May ; 

 Banks found it common in Januar^^ at the Manila Waterworks at 

 Rizal, and he bred the species under similar conditions to those 

 of Giles, who took it in the hills. 



Localities : Bakloh (Punjab) and Lower Himalayas 6,000 to 8,000 

 feet, Naini Tal [Giles] ; Manila [Banks]. 



