44 Records of the Indian Museum. [Vor. XVII, 
not specified any individual as actual ¢yfe, so that in cases where 
the species has been described from several specimens these are 
herein designated as paratypes, each being regarded as of equal 
value. 
Subfamily CERATOPOGONINAE.! 
Calyptopogon, Kieff. 
Mem. Ind. Mus. II, 209 (1910). 
GENOTYPE, C. albitarsis Kieff., sp. nov. 
gibbosa® Wied., Anal. entom., 10 (Macropeza) (1824). 
Macropeza gibbosa, td., Auss. Zweifl. I, 20: Macq., Hist. Nat. 
Dipt-b bor de Mey. Lido v. Hut. 21Or hei sere 
Macropeza javanensis, Kieff., Mem. Ind. Mus. II, 210, nom. nov. 
for gubbosa de Meij. (1910). 
? Macropeza javanensis, Edwards, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (8), XII, 
202. 
*Ostindien”’ [Wzed.], Semarang, 1 [Jacobson]; Peradeniya, 
li-IQ12. Type in Copenhagen Museum. 

1 For characters and table of genera v. Kieff., Gen. Ins., Fasc. 42, p. 44; also 
(for table of genera), 7d., Rec. Ind. Mus. IX, 161 (Culicoidinae). 
2 The synonymy of these two species is somewhat confused, owing to erro- 
neous conceptions. Wiedemann described giddosa as entirely black with the front 
part of the thorax projecting strongly over the head. He then says, ‘‘ Vorderste 
Beine’’ yellow with black tips; ‘“‘hintere’’ lengthened, whitish, etc. Did Wiede- 
mann by “‘beine’’ mean degs or feet (1.e. tarst)? ‘ Legs’’ would be correct, and 
consistent with his general use of the term. De Meitjere adopts this view in his 
redescription (Tijd. v. Ent. L, 216), giving the legs as reddish-yellow, with knees 
and extreme tips of tibiae, also last joint of all the tarsi, black. 
In the common Indian species, of which the Indian Museum has a dozen 
specimens, and which I had always regarded (prior to Kieffer setting up aléztarszs) 
as gibbosa (interpreting ‘‘ beine’ for once as ‘‘ feet ’’ | tarsz] and not ‘“‘legs’’), the 
femora and tarsi are black or dark brown—irrespective of a little paleness at the 
bases of one or more pairs in individual specimens; the front tarsi are normally 
yellow, but may occasionally vary from light brown to nearly white, with black 
tips; the posterior tarsi are white or whitish, the hind pair generally the whitest, 
all with narrowly black tips. This species has the conspicuous, conically produced 
shining black thorax and wholly black body attributable to g/bbosa. 
The erection of Calyptopogon and albitarsis first caused me to doubt this 
identification of gibbosa, as Kieffer described as albitarsis the common Indian 
species | had regarded as gibbosa. He mistranslates the older author's species 
thus: ‘‘anterior and middle feet yellow with black tips; posterior feet whitish.”’ 
He wrongly employs the terms “ anterior’’ and ‘‘ posterior’’ for ‘‘fore’’ and 
‘‘hind’’; because whether Wiedemann meant legs or tarsi in this particular in- 
stance, he certainly by ‘‘ vorderste”’ alluded to the front pair only. The colour of 
the middle tarsi may well vary from yellow to white. He concludes that Meijere’s 
identification of g/bbosa from Java is incorrect assuming that as he (Meijere) re- 
tained the species in MWacropeza, the thorax could not be conically produced, but 
must be as in normal species of that genus. He renamed Meijere’s species ‘‘javan- 
ensts.’’ As I pointed out elsewhere (Rec. Ind. Mus. VIII, 150) Meijere could not 
have failed to note Wiedemann’s very distinct description of the peculiarly shaped 
thorax, so that, whatever his speczes might be, Meijere’s ‘‘ gibbosa, Wied.’’ must at 
least be a Calyptopogon. 
Mr. Edwards notes (Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. [8], XII, 202, 1913) a specimen 
each of two species from Ceylon: (1), ‘‘javanensis Kieff. (gibbosa Meij. nec 
W.),”’ with du/l brown thorax only slightly and bluntly produced forwards, and 
with ye//ow femora and tibiae; and, (2), ‘* gibbosa, W. (albitarsis, Kiett.),’’ with 
shining black, sharply and conically produced thorax, and black femora and tibiae. 
