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NWS. 
Probably there are no specimens of S. indicus in the British 
Museum Collection, as Mr. Distant states that he was able to 
examine and compare this species through the kindness of Dr. 
Sjéstedt. 
Epipaus arrispinus, Dist. 
Distant in Blanford’s Fauna of British India, Rhynchota, ii., 
p. 372. 
Previously recorded only from Mungpoo, Sikkim (Atkinson, 
Brit. Mus.). Two specimens were obtained by Dr. N. Annandale 
at Kurseong in May last. These are the only specimens in the 
Indian Museum collection. 
CAPSIDA. 
GISMUNDA CHELONIA, Dist. 
Distant in Blanford’s Fauna of British India, Rhynchota, ii. 
p. 463. : 
DIPTERA. 
OCULICID. 
ToxoRHYNCHITES 1mMisERICORS ( Walk.) 
Toworhynchites immisericors (Walk.), Green in Spolia Zelanica, 11., 
. 159; Theobald, Monogr. Culic. ii., p.- 123 : Megarhinus vm 
misericors, Walk, ( 3), 'heob,, Monogr, Culic,, i. p. 229, Fy ag 
fig. 28: Megarhinus gile:d (2), Theobald Monogr, Uulic., 
i., p. 227, pl. ix,, fig. 33 
Several specimens of this large Mo 
Mr, 0. L. Paiva in en 
Islands; it was obtained by Major A. B.S. Anderson in July 
or August, 1905. 
These Mosquitoes are indeed handsome creatures, glowing with 
